Books Quote by Angus Wilson Download Open image “The impulse to write a novel comes from a momentary unified vision of life.” — Angus Wilson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books Dreams Impulse Life Momentary Novel Unified Vision Vision of life Writing
“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 Copy Share Image
The impulse to write comes, I think, from a desire - perhaps a need - to give imaginative life to experience, to share it… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
The process of writing a novel is getting to know more about the novel until you know everything about it. And it's been described… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
We don't read novels to have an experience like life. Heck, we're living lives, complete with all the incompleteness. We turn to fiction to… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
the writer is initially set going by literature more than by life. — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
But once an idea for a novel seizes a writer...well, it’s like an inner fire that at first warms you and makes you feel… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Part of writing a novel is being willing to leap into the blackness. You have very little idea, really, of what's going to happen.… — Chang-Rae Lee Copy Share Image
My thoughts went round and round and it occurred to me that if I ever wrote a novel it would be of the 'stream… — Barbara Pym Copy Share Image
Novels begin, not on the page, but in meditation and day-dreaming - In thinking, not writing. — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
the process of a book's coming to life is not fully complete until your imagination meets mine on the page. The words evoke pictures… — Rebecca Wells Copy Share Image
In my experience, a novel is the culmination of various thoughts and impressions collected over time, until something comes along to give them a… — J. Courtney Sullivan Copy Share Image
I have no concern for the common man except that he should not be so common. — Angus Wilson Copy Share Image
Envy has the ugliness of a trapped rat that has gnawed its own foot in its effort to escape. — Angus Wilson Copy Share Image
I opened the large central window of my office room to its full on the fine early May morning. Then I stood for a… — Angus Wilson Copy Share Image
“Between Margaret's fine edged art and Glady's rough simplicity, where did the greater feminine solace lie? True art, after all, is simple.” — Angus Wilson Copy Share Image
People are able to live with only half a heart, to live without real compassion, because they are able to use words that are… — Angus Wilson Copy Share Image
All the seven deadly sins are self destroying, morbid appetites, but in their early stages at least, lust and gluttony, averice and sloth know… — Angus Wilson Copy Share Image
The novelist must be his own most harsh critic and also his own most loving admirer and about both he must say nothing. — Angus Wilson Copy Share Image
The opportunities for heroism are limited in this kind of world: the most people can do is sometimes not to be as weak as… — Angus Wilson 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
