“For both writer and reader, the novel is a lonely, physically inactive affair. Only the imagination races.” ImaginationRaceNovelReaderLonelyAffair Author:Mary McCarthy
“The kind of response I hope for when I write my novels for children: to give them a chance to recognize something of their own feelings -- about themselves, their parents, their friends -- and their own situation as a kind of subject race, always at the mercy of the adults who mostly run their lives for them.” GivingWritingKindChildrenFeelingsRunningParentChanceRaceSituationNovelSubjectsAdultsMercyResponse Author:Nina Bawden
“I started to write a series of fantasy novels when I was eleven. I have never taken anything artistic as seriously; since then, writing has felt like an attempt to get back there, to my bedroom, my maps, those races and languages and runes.” WritingLanguageFeltRaceFantasyNovelTakenSeriesArtisticMapsGet BackBedroomElevenRunesFantasy Novels Author:Ken Baumann
“It's all sex for me. Politics is sex. Race is sex. It's the novel. It's the novel!” SexRaceNovel Author:James Ellroy
“It was always a false assumption that white American writers cannot write novels about race unless they're approaching it from a very oblique angle.” WritingWhiteRaceNovelAssumptionAngleAmerican WriterFalse Assumptions Author:Jess Row