Best dream & novel Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“My first novel was turned down by half a dozen publishers. And even after having published five or six books, I wasn't making enough money to live on, and was beginning to think I'd have to give up the dream of being a full-time writer.”

Thinking Giving Firsts Book Enough Dream Half Novel Five Giving Up Six Dozen Publishers Turned Down

Author:Ian Rankin

“I am the outskirts of some non-existent town, the long-winded prologue to an unwritten book. I'm nobody, nobody. I don't know how to feel or think or love. I'm a character in a novel as yet unwritten, hovering in the air and undone before I've even existed, amongst the dreams of someone who never quite managed to breath life into me.”

Thinking Knows Feels Long Book Character Dream Novel Know How Air Towns Breaths Never Quit Undone Unwritten Hovering Book Of Disquiet Prologue

Book:The Book of Disquiet

Source: The Book of Disquiet

“I've found myself at one in the morning just sitting at my desk spending an hour returning emails from the day until like two in the morning. It's ridiculous, I should be sleeping, or dreaming, or reading a novel.”

Should Two Dream Reading Found Hours Sleep Morning Novel Sitting Spending Ridiculous Desks Email

Author:Brit Marling

“Freud believed that our dreams sometimes recapitulate a speech, a comment we've heard or something that we've read. I always had compositions in my dreams. They would be a joke, a piece of a novel, a witticism or a piece of dialogue from a play, and I would dream them. I would actually express them line by line in the dream. Sometimes after waking up I would remember a snatch or two and write them down. There's something in me that just wants to create dialogue.”

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Author:David Mamet

“War is more like a novel than it is like real life and that is its eternal fascination. It is a thing based on reality but invented, it is a dream made real, all the things that make a novel but not really life.”

Made War Real Dream Reality Novel Eternal Real Life Fascination

Author:Gertrude Stein

“The possibility of the impossible, dreams and illusions, are the subject of my novels.”

Dream Novel Impossible Subjects Possibility Illusion Impossible Dream

Author:Jose Saramago

“Somewhere In Time is the story of a love which transcends time , What Dreams May Come is the story of a love which transcends death . ... I feel that they represent the best writing I have done in the novel form.”

Feels Writing May Done Stories Dream Form Novel End Times Somewhere In Time

Author:Richard Matheson

“I think What Dreams May Come is the most important (read effective) book I've written. It has caused a number of readers to lose their fear of death the finest tribute any writer could receive. ... Somewhere In Time is my favorite novel.”

Thinking May Important Book Dream Loses Numbers Novel Written Reader My Favorite Finest Fear Of Death Tribute Somewhere In Time

Author:Richard Matheson

“I think that physics is about escaping the prison of the received thoughts and searching for novel ways of thinking the world, about trying to clear a bit the misty lake of insubstantial dreams, which reflect reality like the lake reflects the mountains.”

Thinking World Way Trying Dream Reality Bits Novel Clear Mountain Prison Physics Lakes Way Of Thinking Escaping Misty

Book:Quantum Gravity

Source: Quantum Gravity

“Novels are to love as fairy tales to dreams.”

Dream Fiction Novel Tales Fairy Fairy Tale

Book:The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an Introductory Essay Upon His Philosophical and Theological Opinions

Source: The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an Introductory Essay Upon His Philosophical and Theological Opinions

“A novel is what you dream in your night sleep. A novel is not waking thoughts although it is written and thought with waking thoughts.”

Dream Night Sleep Novel Written Waking

Book:The Gertrude Stein Reader: The Great American Pioneer of Avant-garde Letters

Source: The Gertrude Stein Reader: The Great American Pioneer of Avant-garde Letters

“Whatever our problems are, dreams can provide novel ideas and sometimes magnificent resolutions.”

Ideas Sometimes Problem Dream Novel Resolution Magnificent

Book:Creative Dreaming: Plan And Control Your Dreams To Develop Creativity Overcome Fears Solve Proble

Source: Creative Dreaming: Plan And Control Your Dreams To Develop Creativity Overcome Fears Solve Proble

“I was very afraid to write a novel - it was a dream for a very long time, and it was one of the few things that I was afraid to try.”

Writing Trying Long Dream Novel Long Time

Author:Melissa Marr

“I'm inspired by dreams and shadows, obsession and desire. By nature, I'm a dream collector and never stop working. I question people about their weirdest dreams and the strangest, most inexplicable experiences they've had. All this information whirls around in my mind, and new dreams emerge that form the seeds of stories and novels.”

People Mind Stories Dream Form Desire Novel Information Shadow Inspired Seeds Obsession Collectors Inexplicable

Author:Storm Constantine

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