Best ordinary & novel Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

Author:Steig Larsson

“I should love to do a novel, about one abnormal character seeing present-day life, very ordinary life, yet arresting through it, abnormality, until at the end the reader sees, and with little reluctance, that he is not abnormal at all, and that the main character might as well be himself.”

Should Wells Littles Ends Character Might Novel Seeing Reader Ordinary Abnormal Present Day Ordinary Life Day Life Reluctance Main Characters Abnormality Arresting

Author:Patricia Highsmith

“The "Lucifer Effect" describes the point in time when an ordinary, normal person first crosses the boundary between good and evil to engage in an evil action. It represents a transformation of human character that is significant in its consequences. Such transformations are more likely to occur in novel settings, in "total situations," where social situational forces are sufficiently powerful to overwhelm, or set aside temporally, personal attributes of morality, compassion, or sense of justice and fair play.”

“Harmonious words render ordinary ideas acceptable; less ordinary, pleasant; novel and ingenious ones, delightful. As pictures and statues, and living beauty, too, show better by music-light, so is poetry irradiated, vivified, glorified', and raised into immortal life by harmony.”

Ideas Shows Light Novel Ordinary Harmony Raised Pleasant Immortal Acceptable Delightful Statues Harmonious Ingenious Immortal Life

Book:The Works of Walter Savage Landor

Source: The Works of Walter Savage Landor

“love of truth, ordinary common truth recognizable to everyone, is the ruling passion of the novel.”

Passion Common Novel Ordinary Ruling Ruling Passion

Book:A Bolt from the Blue and Other Essays

Source: A Bolt from the Blue and Other Essays

“One of the marks of true genius is a quality of abundance. A rich, rollicking abundance, enough to give indigestion to ordinary people. Great artists turn it out in rolls, in swatches. They cover whole ceilings with paintings, they chip out a mountainside in stone, they write not one novel but a shelf full. It follows that some of their work is better than other. As much as a third of it may be pretty bad. Shall we say this unevenness is the mark of their humanity - of their proud mortality as well as of their immortality?”

Source: The Nature of the Artist: An Address Delivered at the Dedication Ceremonies for Lee Pattison Recital Hall, Wilbur Hall, Mary Kimberly Residence Hall

“There is no such thing as too ordinary to write about, whether that's life or a scene in a novel. What's interesting to people, whether it's memoir or fiction, is the truth.”

People Writing Interesting Fiction Novel Scene Ordinary Memoir

Author:Augusten Burroughs

“Usually, ordinary histories don't get the emotional feel of a period. That's what a novel can do.”

Feels Can Do Novel Emotional Periods Ordinary

Author:Alix Kates Shulman

“Our rate of progress is such that an individual human being, of ordinary length of life, will be called on to face novel situations which find no parallel in his past. The fixed person, for the fixed duties, who, in older societies was such a godsend, in the future will be a public danger.”

Humans Persons Past Faces Individual Human Beings Situation Novel Progress Danger Duty Ordinary Rate Fixed Length Parallels Length Of Life

Book:Science and the Modern World

Source: Science and the Modern World

“Certainly some guy eating cardboard in Cincinnati has lost any ordinary impetus to review your novel decently if he's just read you just got six figures out of Warner Bros - which incidentally was not true.”

Ifs Guy Lost Novel Figures Six Eating Ordinary Reviews Impetus Bros Warner Bros

Author:William Monahan

“You hear the best stories from ordinary people. That sense of immediacy is more real to me than a lot of writerly, literary-type crafted stories. I want that immediacy when I read a novel.”

People Want Real Stories Novel Type Ordinary Ordinary People Immediacy

Author:Chuck Palahniuk

“'The Satanic Verses' was denied the ordinary life of a novel. It became something smaller and uglier: an insult.”

Novel Ordinary Insult Denied Verses Ordinary Life Satanic Satanic Verses

Book:Joseph Anton

Source: Joseph Anton

“Most contemporary novels are not really "written." They obtain what reality they have largely from an accurate rendering of the noises that human beings currently make in their daily simple needs of communication; and what part of a novel is not composed of these noises consists of a prose which is no more alive than that of a competent newspaper writer or government official. A prose that is altogether alive demands something of the reader that the ordinary novel-reader is not prepared to give.”

“[Kafka] transformed the profoundly antipoetic material of a highly bureaucratized society into the great poetry of the novel; he transformed a very ordinary story of a man who cannot obtain a promised job . . . into myth, into epic, into a kind of beauty never before seen.”

Men Kind Stories Jobs Novel Materials Ordinary Myth Transformed Epic Great Poetry

Author:Milan Kundera

“A prose that is altogether alive demands something of the reader that the ordinary novel reader is not prepared to give.”

Giving Novel Alive Reader Demand Ordinary Prepared Prose

Author:T. S. Eliot

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