“the novel is inherently a political instrument, regardless of its subject. It invites you - more than invites you, induces you - to live inside another person's skin. It creates empathy. And that's the antidote to bigotry. The novel doesn't just tell you about another life, which is what a newspaper would do. It makes you live another life, inhabit another perspective. And that's very important.” PersonsImportantPoliticalLiteratureNovelSubjectsPerspectiveEmpathySkinsInstrumentsNewspapersBigotryInvitesAntidoteAnother Life Author:Barbara Kingsolver
“A novel is really like a symphony where instrument after instrument has to come in at its own time, and no other.” NovelInstrumentsSymphony Book:Katherine Anne Porter: Conversations Source: Katherine Anne Porter: Conversations
“By writing a horror novel where this inexplicable disorder takes over in our ordered lives, you make order look better by comparison. But below that, there's a part of us that responds to the Who bashing their instruments to pieces on the stage. There's a very primitive part that says, "Do it some more."” WritingLooksOrderNovelPiecesStageHorrorInstrumentsComparisonDisorderPrimitiveInexplicable Book:Bare bones: conversations on terror with Stephen King Source: Bare bones: conversations on terror with Stephen King
“Jonathan Coe's genial, likeable novel can only be described as a kind of lit-prog-rock concept album... Coe recreates the period with such loving accuracy that I frankly suspect him of having planted a secret microphone in the tin Oxford Mathematical Instruments box I carried around in my school days... As always with Jonathan Coe, the sheer intelligent good nature that suffuses his work makes it a pleasure to read.” KindSchoolPleasureSecretNovelRocksPeriodsConceptsIntelligentInstrumentsAlbumsBoxesMathematicalSuspectsSheerLitAccuracyOxfordMicrophonesTinGood NatureLikeableSchool Days Author:Peter Bradshaw
“What I think is the most important thing to learn about any instrument is the basics of music. Learn your ABCs before you write a Hemingway novel.” ThinkingWritingImportantNovelInstrumentsImportant ThingsBasics Author:Yngwie Malmsteen
“The novel's not the best form for disposing ideas, though that's one thing it can do. It likely is the best form, though, for conveying the experience of us each being alone, trapped in our skulls with only these bodies and this imperfect instrument of language to convey our state and to find meaning and connection.” IdeasStatesBodyFormLanguageCan DoNovelOne ThingConnectionsInstrumentsImperfectTrappedFind MeSkullsConveying Author:Michael Helm