“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.” ThinkingKnowsFeelsLongBookCharacterDreamNovelKnow HowAirTownsBreathsNever QuitUndoneUnwrittenHoveringBook Of DisquietPrologue Book:The Book of Disquiet Source: The Book of Disquiet
“I don't think you should write something as long as a novel around anything that is not of the gravest concern to you and everybody else and for me this is always the conflict between an attraction for the Holy and the disbelief in it that we breathe in with the air of the times.” ThinkingShouldWritingLongNovelAirHolyConflictConcernBreatheAttractionDisbelief Author:Flannery O'Connor
“There are some short essays that are very grave, and most contemporary novels are lighter than air.” NovelAirGravesContemporaryEssaysLighters Author:Fran Lebowitz
“I must love big novels, because that's what I've written. It takes a while before you begin to breathe the air the characters breathe.” CharacterBigsNovelWrittenAirBreathe Author:Norman Rush