“Karla Jay's intimate account of life in the early years of feminism and gay liberation is as irresistible as a novel, but as credible, humorous, and unexpected as real life.” YearsRealNovelFeminismGayHumorousAccountsReal LifeLiberationIntimateUnexpectedIrresistibleCredibleGay Liberation Author:Gloria Steinem
“People do tell a writer things that they don't tell others. I don't know why, unless it is that having read one or two of his books they feel on peculiarly intimate terms with him; or it may be that they dramatize themselves and, seeing themselves as it were as characters in a novel, are ready to be as open with him as they imagine the characters of his invention are.” PeopleKnowsFeelsWritingMayTwoBookCharacterTermNovelImagineSeeingReadyInventionIntimate Author:W. Somerset Maugham
“Writing novels is where I'm most comfortable. It's a very intimate experience.” WritingNovelComfortableIntimate Author:Matthew Nable
“This is another thing which I really like investigating in my novels: what is it that makes an intimate society, that makes a society in which moral concern for others will be possible? Part of that I think are manners and ritual. We tried to get rid of manners, we tried to abolish manners in the '60s. Manners were very, very old-fashioned and un-cool. And of course we didn't realise that manners are the building blocks of proper moral relationships between people.” PeopleThinkingCoursesMoralNovelBuildingConcernBlockMannersIntimateRitualRealisingOld FashionedAbolishInvestigatingBuilding BlocksConcern For Others Author:Alexander McCall Smith
“No matter how enormous a novel may become, the physical act of reading determines that there's no way it can become a communal experience. To read is intimate. It's almost masturbatory.” WayMayMatterReadingNovelDetermineEnormousIntimate Author:Jonathan Lethem
“You, and in fact quite a lot of your generation, have in some way been exiled from that particular sanctuary. It's become almost impossible for someone to "go mad" in the classical sense. At one time people conveniently "went mad" and were never heard from again. Like a character in a romantic novel. But now you are too hip to yourself on a psychological level. You all are too intimate with too many of the symptoms of insanity to be caught completely off your guard.” PeopleWayCharacterFactsLevelsNovelImpossibleGenerationsHeardParticularMadCaughtPsychologicalHipsInsanityIntimateOne TimeSymptomsSanctuary Author:Ken Kesey