“I think the novel is the American form because people read it in private, and the only valuable things that happen in America happen in private life, because public life is a dead loss.” PeopleThinkingHappensAmericaFormLife IsLossNovelValuablePrivate LifePublic LifeValuable Things Author:David Hare
“There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge. It makes you behave like the village drunkard in some early Irish novel. Total loss of all basic motor skills, blurred vision, no balance, numb tongue - the mind recoils in horror, unable to communicate with the spinal column. Which is interesting, because you can actually watch yourself behaving in this terrible way, but you can’t control it.” MenWorldWayMindLossInterestingVisionWatchesNovelBalanceTerribleHorrorSkillsDepthCommunicateTongueBehaveVillageHelplessMotorVegasLas VegasColumnsIrresponsibleNumbLoathingDrunkardsDepravedBingeFear And LoathingRecoil Author:Hunter S. Thompson
“The return to a favorite novel is generally tied up with changes in oneself that must be counted as improvements, but have the feel of losses. It is like going back to a favorite house, country, person; nothing is where it belongs, including one's heart.” FeelsHeartPersonsBookCountryReadingHouseLossNovelReturnIncludingOneselfImprovementTiedBook ReadingTied Up Book:Occasional prose Source: Occasional prose
“Monkey Beach is a moody, powerful novel full of memorable characters. Reading it was like entering a pool of emerald water to discover a haunted world shivering with loss and love, regret and sorrow, where the spirit world is as real as the human. I was sucked into it with the very first sentence and when I left, it was with a feeling of immense reluctance.” WorldFirstsHumansRealCharacterFeelingsSpiritReadingLeftWaterLossPowerfulNovelRegretSorrowAnd LoveSentencesBeachMemorablePoolImmenseMonkeysEnteringMoodyReluctanceEmeraldsSpirit WorldMemorable Characters Author:Anita Rau Badami
“Philip Galanes makes his debut with a novel that is both heartbreaking and deftly comic, the story of a young man struggling with his most primitive desires--wanting and needing. It is a novel about the complex relationships between parents and children, a story of loss and of our unrelenting need for acknowledgment, to be seen as who we are. And in the end it is simply a love story for our time.” MenNeedsChildrenEndsStoriesYoungDesireParentLossNovelStruggleComplexesLove StoryComicYoung ManOur TimeWho We ArePrimitiveHeartbreakingPhilipDebutChildren And ParentsAcknowledgmentUnrelentingComplex Relationships Author:A.M. Homes
“Once in a rare while, you get to read a story of such breathtaking beauty and intelligence that you remember why you love to read. The Anatomy Lesson is just such a novel. In stunning prose, Nina Siegal animates Rembrandt's first masterpiece, spinning a deeply affecting tale of love, loss and redemption as she reveals the secrets of the human soul. It is a gorgeous literary page turner of immense sympathy and elegance, equal in artistic lan to its inspiration. Brava!” FirstsHumansSoulStoriesInspirationRememberLossSecretNovelLessonsEqualPagesTalesRedemptionArtisticProseImmenseMasterpieceGorgeousEleganceHuman SoulSpinningAnatomyStunningBreathtakingLove To ReadTurnerNinaLove Loss Author:Robin Oliveira
“You could say that this book is ripped from the headlines, but that wouldn't be fair. Bret Anthony Johnston's riveting novel picks up where the tabloids leave off, and takes us places even the best journalism can't go. Remember Me Like This is a wise, moving, and troubling novel about family and identity, and a clear-eyed inventory of loss and redemption.” BookRememberMovingLossNovelClearWiseIdentityPicksFairsRedemptionJournalismHeadlinesRippedTabloidsRemember MeAbout FamilyInventory Author:Tom Perrotta
“The messiness [in my books] is nothing like an Atwood novel. For me, the deeper subjects are secrets versus intimacy, and how both beget safety but also threaten it. And there is a lot for me about loss, too.” BookLossSecretNovelSubjectsSafetyDeeperIntimacyVersusBegetsMessiness Author:Edan Lepucki
“I'm asked all the time, "Doesn't it feel great to finish the novel?" And the answer to that is, "No." It's sort of a loss to stop a 10-year project, which is an imaginary project in the sense that it's a work of my imagination. The people who I've lived with for 10 years in my imagination are now sort of defunct. To lose them is rather a mournful process - it's not a relief.” PeopleImaginationLossNovelImaginaryMy Imagination Author:Bob Shacochis
“Writers of novels and romance in general bring a double loss to their readers; robbing them of their time and money; representing men, manners, and things, that never have been, or are likely to be.” MenHas BeensRomanceLossMoneyNovelReaderMannersRepresentingRobbingTime And Money Author:Mary Wortley Montagu
“...until that moment I had not understood that this was a story about lonely people, about absence and loss, and that that was why I had taken refuge in it until it became confused with my own life, like someone who has escaped into the pages of a novel because those whom he needs to love seem nothing more than ghosts inhabiting the mind of a stranger.” PeopleNeedsMindMomentsStoriesSeemsMy OwnLossNovelTakenPagesUnderstoodLonelyStrangerAbsenceGhostConfusedThat MomentRefugeMy Own LifeLonely People Book:The Shadow Of The Wind Source: The Shadow Of The Wind
“That's the whole burden of this novel - the loss of those illusions that give such color to the world that you don't care whether things are true or false as long as they partake of the magical glory.” WorldGivingLongWholeCareLossNovelColorGloryIllusionBurdenDon't CareTrue Or False Book:A Life in Letters Source: A Life in Letters
“You are suffering from an ailment that affects ladies of romantic imaginations. Symptoms include fainting, weariness, loss of appetite, low spirits. While on one level the crisis can be ascribed to wandering about in freezing rain without the benefit of adequate waterproofing, the deeper cause is more likely to be found in some emotional trauma. However, unlike the heroines of your favorite novels, your constitution has not been weakened by the privations of life in earlier, harsher centuries. No tuberculosis, no childhood polio, no unhygienic living conditions. You'll survive.' " pg. 303” SpiritSufferingFoundCausesImaginationLossLevelsNovelChildhoodConditionsCenturyEmotionalBenefitsLowsRainConstitutionCrisisDeeperTraumaWanderAppetiteSymptomsAdequateHeroinesWearinessYour FavoriteFreezingAilmentsPolioTuberculosisFaintingLiving ConditionsEmotional Trauma Author:Diane Setterfield
“I am at a loss to understand why people hold Miss Austen's novels at so high a rate, which seem to me vulgar in tone, sterile in artistic invention, imprisoned in their wretched conventions of English society, without genius, wit, or knowledge of the world. Never was life so pinched and narrow. ... All that interests in any character [is this]: has he (or she) the money to marry with? ... Suicide is more respectable.” PeopleWorldCharacterSeemsInterestLossNovelMissingGeniusSuicideRateWitInventionArtisticToneConventionsVulgarWretchedRespectableAustenKnowledge Of The WorldEnglish Society Author:Ralph Waldo Emerson