Books Quote by Alberto Moravia Download Open image “I don't think it's possible to write a good novel around a negative personality.” — Alberto Moravia ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books Negative Novel Personality Thinking Writing
I don't think I could, with a straight face, describe myself as a completely positive person, but I'm not overly negative, either. On the… — James Lasdun Copy Share Image
The really great novel tends to be the exact negative of its author's life. — Andre Maurois Copy Share Image
There is nothing that dulls a personality so much as a negative outlook. — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
“Negative personalities literally bring out the worst in us, for they highlight all the things that are wrong with us. Positive personalities bring out… — Leslie T. Giblin Copy Share Image
There is nothing called negative character. The negativity and positivity exists in all of us. — Nawazuddin Siddiqui Copy Share Image
“...no mind ever grew fat on a diet of novels. The pleasure which they occasionally offer is far too heavily paid for: they undermine… — Elias Canetti Copy Share Image
You cannot be a good writer of serious fiction if you are not depressed. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is a natural disposition with us to judge an author's personal character by the character of his works. We find it difficult to… — Edwin Percy Whipple Copy Share Image
I'm not sure that it's possible to write a novel about people who don't transgress or stumble, people who don't surprise themselves with the… — Tom Perrotta Copy Share Image
Negative emotions, such as the feelings of hatred, meanness, low self-esteem and confidence, and pessimism, create an unpleasant person and a bleak destiny. — Troublemaker Copy Share Image
Ultimately, all characters have some negative and positive energies. That's just how I see it. I didn't go out looking for negative characters; I… — Philip Seymour Hoffman Copy Share Image
any writer is inevitably going to work with his own anxieties and desires. If the book is any good it has got to have… — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
When I sit at my table to write, I never know what it's going to be until I'm under way. I trust in inspiration,… — Alberto Moravia Copy Share Image
This thought strengthened in me my belief that all men, without exception, deserve to be pitied, if only because they are alive. — Alberto Moravia Copy Share Image
Every true writer is like a bird; he repeats the same song, the same theme, all his life. For me, this theme as always… — Alberto Moravia Copy Share Image
And we all know love is a glass which makes even a monster appear fascinating. — Alberto Moravia Copy Share Image
...my boredom might be described as a malady affecting external objects and consisting of a withering process; an almost instantaneous loss of vitality--just as… — Alberto Moravia Copy Share Image
Good writers are monotonous, like good composers. They keep trying to perfect the one problem they were born to understand. — Alberto Moravia Copy Share Image
The novel as we knew it in the nineteenth century was killed off by Proust and Joyce. — Alberto Moravia Copy Share Image
You can't think on purpose about somebody or something. Either you think about them naturally or you don't think at all. — Alberto Moravia Copy Share Image
I do not foresee a time when I shall feel that I have nothing to say. — Alberto Moravia Copy Share Image
“I gave up the unequal struggle against what appeared to be in my fate, indeed, I welcomed it with more affection. As one embraces… — Alberto Moravia Copy Share Image
Yes, one uses what one knows, but autobiography means something else. I should never be able to write a real autobiography; I always end… — Alberto Moravia Copy Share Image
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.' — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
My sentences got sharper and my stories more efficient, and I gradually learned to imagine the reader more clearly and to empathize with that… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
“Within the pages of books, I've journeyed to Mandalay, the Milky Way and Santa Fe, without once having to leave my armchair.” — Kevin Ansbro Copy Share Image
“Tacitus did not write a most dangerous book. His readers made it so.” — Christopher K. Krebs Copy Share Image
“Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort.” — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
