“If novels and stories are bulletins from the progressive states of ignorance a writer passes through over the years, observations and opinions about horses are all the more so, since horses are more mysterious than life and harder to understand.” IfsYearsStatesStoriesOpinionNovelIgnoranceHorseHarderMysteriousObservationProgressive Book:A Year at the Races: Reflections on Horses, Humans, Love, Money and Luck Source: A Year at the Races: Reflections on Horses, Humans, Love, Money and Luck
“I began plotting novels at about the time I learned to read. The story of my childhood is the usual bleak fantasy, and we can dismiss it with the restrained observation that I certainly would not consider living it again.” StoriesFantasyNovelChildhoodObservationUsualBleak Author:James A. Baldwin
“[Property] is a brilliant, chillingly revelatory piece of fiction, a work of craft, economy and such good merciless observation-one of those rare, crucial novels illuminating a history we think we know and understand so that after we've read it we'll never forget its truths.” ThinkingKnowsForgetFictionNovelEconomyPiecesPropertyBrilliantObservationCraftsNever ForgetCrucialForget ItIlluminating Author:Ali Smith
“At present, the novels which we owe to English ladies form no small part of the literary glory of our country. No class of works is more honorably distinguished for fine observation, by grace, by delicate wit, by pure moral feeling.” CountryFeelingsFormMoralClassNovelGraceFinePureGloryWitOur CountryObservationDelicateDistinguishedSmall Parts Author:Thomas B. Macaulay
“The most ancient parts of truth . . . also once were plastic. They also were called true for human reasons. They also mediated between still earlier truths and what in those days were novel observations. Purely objective truth, truth in whose establishment the function of giving human satisfaction in marrying previous parts of experience with newer parts played no role whatsoever, is nowhere to be found. The reasons why we call things true is the reason why they are true, for to be true means only to perform this marriage-function.” GivingHumansMeanStillsReasonTruthFoundRolesNovelFunctionAncientSatisfactionObjectivesBeing TrueObservationReason WhyEstablishmentPlasticMarryingHuman ReasonObjective Truth Author:William James
“Film is so much about that intensity of focus that there always needs to be some tension and some forward motion. The novel goes into a series of lovely observations about the world, but you've got to find the story.” WorldNeedsStoriesFilmNovelFocusSeriesLovelyObservationTensionIntensityForward Motion Author:Lenny Abrahamson
“Anthropologists are great at novelistic observations. I would be thrilled if this novel would encourage anthropologists to write what they see in fictional form.” IfsWritingWould BeFormNovelObservationAnthropologists Author:Lily King