“The most powerful words in English are 'Tell me a story,' words that are intimately related to the complexity of history, the origins of language, the continuity of the species, the taproot of our humanity, our singularity, and art itself. I was born into the century in which novels lost their stories, poems their rhymes, paintings their form, and music its beauty, but that does not mean I had to like that trend or go along with it. I fight against these movements with every book I write.” WritingMeanDoeArtBookStoriesFormHumanityFightingLostLanguageBornPowerfulNovelCenturyMovementPaintingSpeciesRelatedComplexityMost PowerfulTrendsRhymeContinuitySingularityPowerful Words Author:Pat Conroy
“Toronto may be the only city where novels are integral to high art, the alternative scene and mainstream culture all at the same time.” MayArtCultureCitiesNovelSceneAlternativesMainstreamTorontoHigh ArtMainstream Culture Author:Stephen Marche
“A large part of the art of instruction lies in making the difficulty of new problems large enough to challenge thought, and small enough so that, in addition to the confusion naturally attending the novel elements, there shall be luminous familiar spots from which helpful suggestions may spring.” MayArtEnoughProblemLyingChallengesNovelElementsSpringDifficultyFamiliarConfusionSpotsHelpfulInstructionSuggestionsLuminousAttending Book:Democracy And Education Source: Democracy And Education
“To AMC's credit, I think what they saw was the show doesn't exist in the marketplace. They knew that there was a hunger for a martial arts show. They also knew that you have this strong tradition of martial arts cinema, so even though it's not branded by a novel or a comic book or an old movie or something, we do have the genre itself, which people love.” PeopleThinkingArtBookShowsStrongNovelSawsTraditionHungerCreditComicGenreCinemaMartial ArtsComic BookMarketplaceBrandedOld Movie Author:Alfred Gough
“When I began making art, I just thought I liked it. As a woman who was placed in spaces with various conditions, conventions, and restrictions on self-expression, turning to art - whether visual art, writing novels, or writing articles - was to gain freedom from the space around me.” WritingArtSelfSpaceNovelConditionsExpressionGainsVariousVisualsArticlesConventionsRestrictionSelf ExpressionVisual Art Author:Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook
“Ayn Rand held that art is a 're-creation of reality according to an artist's metaphysical value-judgements.' By its nature, therefore, a novel (like a statue or a symphony) does not require or tolerate an explanatory preface; it is a self-contained universe, aloof from commentary, beckoning the reader to enter, perceive, respond.” DoeArtSelfRealityArtistValuesUniverseNovelCreationReaderArt IsPerceiveJudgementTolerateMetaphysicalStatuesSymphonyCommentaryAloofSelf ContainedBeckoning Author:Leonard Peikoff
“It is quite beneath the dignity of a person holding a Bachelor of Arts degree to engage in such a vulgar occupation as the writing of novels.” WritingPersonsArtNovelDegreesDignityOccupationVulgarBachelorsArts DegreesBachelor Of Arts Author:Fukuzawa Yukichi
“And yet my, not only my faith, but my experience has led me to believe that the world is not a construction of space and time and matter and energy. That that mapping is insufficient. That the world is instead some kind of a linguistic construct. It is more in the nature of a sentence, or a novel, or a work of art than it is in the nature of these machine models of interlocking law that we inherit out of a thousand years of rational reductionism.” WorldYearsBelieveKindArtMatterLawEnergySpaceNovelThousandModelsMachinesSentencesRationalWorks Of ArtConstructionThousand YearsConstructsTime And SpaceInsufficientMappingReductionismMatter And Energy Author:Terence McKenna
“The novel may be dead as a commercial form. When art forms things die as commercial forms, something happens to the practice of those arts that isn't very pleasant. It used to be that a poet like Tennyson could keep his house and his coach-and-four and his staff of six servants on the income from poetry. That doesn't happen anymore.” MayArtHappensFormUsedDiesHousePracticeNovelFourPoetSixCoachesThings HappenIncomeUsed To BeServantPleasantStaffTennyson Author:William Monahan
“The recent extraordinary discovery in Photography, as applied in the operations of the mind, has reduced the art of novel-writing to the merest mechanical labour.” WritingMindArtNovelPhotographyDiscoveryExtraordinaryOperationsLabourNovel Writing Book:Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Other Tales Source: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Other Tales
“I've been asked which of the other arts novel-writing is most like, and I have come to believe it is acting. Of course, in terms of pattern it can be like music, in terms of structure it can be like painting, but the job to me is most like acting.” WritingBelieveArtJobsCoursesTermActingNovelPaintingStructurePatternsNovel Writing Author:Andrew O'Hagan
“When a sculptor creates a sculpture, a writer writes a novel, or a painter paints a motif on a canvas, he needs talent and expertise. But to be successful in his endeavor, he also needs to have the passionate feeling that he wants, at all costs, to create a work of art which, in his head, constantly demands to be accomplished. The same also applies to developing board games or card games.” WantNeedsWritingArtFeelingsGamesNovelSuccessfulTalentCostDemandPaintPassionatePainterCardsDevelopingBoardsAccomplishedBeing SuccessfulWorks Of ArtEndeavorCanvasSculptureExpertiseSculptorsMotifsBoard Games Author:Klaus Teuber
“I think the martial arts tradition has a big influence on our generation - we all read these novels when we were very young.” ThinkingArtBigsYoungNovelGenerationsInfluenceTraditionMartial ArtsOur Generation Author:Wong Kar-wai
“There's also an immediacy to everything that has changed everybody's expectations. Now if I can't get a hold of somebody on their cell phone I'm, like, angry with them. And in my mind, all the things that I really value in terms of art, really good novels or films or comics, I know they all take a long, long time to create, and they take a lot of concentration and dedication...and I just feel like the training for that is becoming more and more rare when people are used to seeing things like YouTube clips, and being able to acquire things instantly.” PeopleIfsKnowsFeelsMindLongArtI CanAbleFilmUsedValuesTermNovelSeeingChangedLike YouBecomingLong TimeTrainingExpectationsAngryPhonesCellsAcquireConcentrationDedicationYoutubeCell PhoneBecoming MoreClipImmediacy Author:Adrian Tomine
“My first book published in France was translated and titled Exercices d'Attente in 1972. It was a collection of short works written and published in Romania. In 1973 I was ready to publish the novel Arpièges, which I had started writing in Romanian and of which I had published some fragments under the title Vain Art of the Fugue. Some years later, I finished Necessary Marriage.” WritingYearsFirstsArtBookNovelWrittenReadyFinishedFranceVainTitlesCollectionsFragmentsPublishRomaniaFugue Author:Dumitru Tepeneag
“Vain Art of the Fugue was the only one of my novels to be met with relative public recognition: it was nominated for the Prix Médicis by Alain Robbe-Grillet. Milan Kundera pocketed the prize instead and the public never clamored to buy it.” ArtNovelMetsRecognitionVainPrizeRelativeMilanFugue Author:Dumitru Tepeneag
“While I was drawn to the Renaissance, my first (unpublished) novels took place in modern times. When the subject of alchemy started creeping into my stories, an astute mentor observed that the bits about alchemy might fit better in another time frame. When I finally decided to weave the pieces about the medieval science into historical settings, a successful novel began to emerge. (And I dusted off that art history book, and put it to use once again.)” FirstsArtBookStoriesUseMightBitsNovelSuccessfulPiecesModernSubjectsFitDecidedHistoricalSettingSettingsMentorMedievalRenaissanceAlchemyArt HistoryHistory BooksModern TimesAnother TimeAstute Author:Mary Pope Osborne
“The Australian Gerald Murnane, a genius on the level of Beckett, is known in Australia and Sweden but almost nowhere else. And I loved Reality Hunger, David Shields' recent novel take on the art of the novel.” ArtRealityLevelsKnownNovelGeniusHungerAustraliaShieldsAustralianSwedenBeckett Author:Teju Cole
“"Freedom, individualism, authenticity and being yourself so long as you don't hurt another's physical person or property: The creative process is the emergence in action of a novel relational product, growing out of the uniqueness of the individual."” PersonsLongArtActionIndividualProcessHurtNovelCreativeGrowingProductsPropertyAuthenticityBeing YourselfIndividualismCreative ProcessUniquenessEmergence Author:Carl Rogers
“The reality that we were growing up in was very young and vibrant, and nobody was capturing that part of India. I started to backpack after getting out of college. I hiked and did a lot of things nobody was capturing in art at all in India, so I wrote my first novel. It was a very, trippy, experience-filled novel, and it ended up doing very well in India because nobody was writing about that at that point.” WritingFirstsWellsArtRealityYoungNovelGrowing UpGrowingCollegeIndiaFilledTrippy Author:Karan Bajaj
“Voltaire's novel [Candid] offers us parallel universes, the possibility of entering into alternative worlds existing side by side, and this is something quite modern. Nested narratives and parallel universes are popular at the moment in many different art forms.” WorldArtDifferentMomentsFormUniverseSidesNovelModernPossibilityOffersAlternativesNarrativeEnteringParallelsCandidParallel Universe Author:Mark Ravenhill