Books Quote by Clarice Lispector

“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

“Philosophic thoughts allow people to use human reason and imagination to consider eternal matters and explore the ramifications of their own transience. American author…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

“The importance of a story doesn't merely lie in the development of its plot and the characters involved in it, but in its exploration…

— Gulzar

“My story isn't sweet and harmonious, like invented stories. It tastes of folly and bewilderment, of madness and dream, like the life of all…

— Herman Hesse

“The experience of mankind on the earth is always changing as man develops and has to deal with new combinations of elements; and the…

— Edmund Wilson

“And while we may never be able to wrap our minds around the thing itself, it is by the power of a story that…

— Casey Fisher

A story communicates fear, hope, and anxiety, and because we can feel it, we get the moral not just as a concept, but as…

— Marshall Ganz

“The finest SF comes to grips with life's mysteries, with our resentments against our own natures and our limited societies. It does so by…

— George Zebrowski

“But a good novel is first of all an event; as distinguished from the continuous rush of many sensations and the messy overlapping experiences…

— Anonymous

“...a novel, like a myth or any great work of art, can become an initiation that helps us to make a painful rite of…

— Karen Armstrong

“I believed in the existence of other and more vivid kinds of goodness, and what I believed in I wished to behold. Who blames…

— Charlotte Brontë

“True psycho-emotional exploration, rooted in desire (what I call BioSpirituality), replaces metaphysical story telling with the real thing.”

— Zzenn