“Most novels, if they are successful at all, are original in the sense that they report the existence of an area of society, a type of person, not yet admitted to the general literate consciousness.” IfsPersonsExistenceConsciousnessNovelSuccessfulTypeAreasOriginalsReports Book:The Golden Notebook Source: The Golden Notebook
“Special qualities are required of the essayist. A poem or a novel may spring from the inner consciousness of an author. Reasoning poers must be brought to reinforce imagination.” MayImaginationConsciousnessQualityNovelSpecialSpringReasoningEssayists Author:Flora Thompson
“The excitement of theatre is palpable but the frustrations, and the complete absence of a definitive evening - the play as text means practically nothing in a way - , there's no particular performance that is definitive in the way a novel is a solid object you hold in your hands and here it is. You can't say that about a play. If the novel gives us a sense of throbbing consciousness, theater is pure soul, beautiful and elusive.” IfsWayGivingMeanSoulPlayHandsBeautifulConsciousnessNovelObjectsParticularPurePerformancesTheaterTheatreAbsenceEveningExcitementFrustrationElusivePure Soul Author:Don DeLillo
“I am not sure how a novel changes the world. I think it alters a reader's perspective by asking him or her to see the world through another consciousness. That can perhaps cause people to see their own lives differently. Or just give a single day, a single moment, a slightly different sheen.” PeopleThinkingWorldGivingDifferentMomentsCausesConsciousnessNovelPerspectiveReaderAskingNot SureChanging The WorldSingle Mom Author:Edan Lepucki
“The contemporary memoir is playing an important role in at least just bringing certain relationships out into the open in American society, and also it's a place where the novel of development, the novel of consciousness, has gone.” ImportantCertainConsciousnessRolesNovelGoneDevelopmentMemoirContemporaryAmerican Society Author:Marco Roth
“Magazines, books, novels, TV, internet, movies - all of those things is what creates our consciousness.” BookConsciousnessNovelTvsInternetMagazines Author:Jane Fonda
“There are as many different ways to write a novel as there are varieties of human consciousness, so I am totally delighted if people want to use words that come from genres to describe how this book functions because those words are accurate.” PeopleIfsWayWantWritingHumansBookDifferentUseConsciousnessNovelFunctionVarietyGenreDifferent WaysAccurateDelightedHuman Consciousness Author:Emily Barton