Books Quote by Alfred Doblin

“The novel is an event in consciousness. Our aim isn't to copy actuality, but to modify and recreate our sense of it. The novelist…

— George Buchanan

“Aesthetic criticism returns us to the autonomy of imaginative literature and the sovereignty of the solitary soul, the reader not as a person in…

— Harold Bloom

“The novelist is like a scout commissioned to go and see what is happening in the depth of the soul. He comes back and…

— Julien Green

“A body of work, therefore, reveals the intellectual and emotional progress of the writer, and is a map of his soul. It's both terrifying…

— Dean Koontz

a novelist's chief desire is to be as unconscious as possible. He has to induce in himself a state of perpetual lethargy. He wants…

— Virginia Woolf

“A novelist is like a scout commissioned to go and see what is happening in the depth of the soul. He comes back and…

— Julien Green

“Fiction is what happens inside a writer's head. Reality takes place outside it”

— Barry A. Whittingham

For me, the novel is experience illumined by imagination.

— Ellen Glasgow

“In reality every reader is, while he is reading, the reader of his own self. The writer's work is merely a kind of optical…

— Marcel Proust

“Writing is a solitary venture. Making use of a soundless void in the vortex of time the author enters the realm of restoration, an…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

“The sole/soul purpose of a book is to be read.”

— Dani J Caile

“I have found that a writer is formed not so much by their experiences but by the way in which they view and capture…

— H Raven Rose