Impulse Quote by Daniel Bell

“the journalist philosophy. This name is a nod to the fact that journalists, like Walter Isaacson, are trained to shift into a writing mode…

— Cal Newport

The impulse to write a novel comes from a momentary unified vision of life.

— Angus Wilson

“As a journalist, he always felt a sense of commitment not only to the piece he had written, but to the individual, event, or…

— Bandi

You do not conceive a novel as easily as you conceive a child, nor even half as easily as you create nonfiction work. A…

— Zelda Popkin

“Yet I am incapable of writing the only kind of novel which interests me: a book powered with an intellectual or moral passion strong…

— Doris Lessing

“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

“Journalism has an urgency driven by events that philosophy tends to lack, while philosophy relies on analysis or contemplation that journalists often don’t have…

— Peter Catapano

“Sometimes a writer is inspired by the moment, more often they are prepared.”

— Loron-Jon Stokes

“Occasionally, noticing an exact identity of thought between what I felt but could not articulate and the clearly expressed idea of a writer, I…

— Gopi Krishna

“A sensible person does not read a novel as a task. He reads it as a diversion. He is prepared to interest himself in…

— W. Somerset Maugham

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

“Thus the fundamental form-determining intention of the novel is objectivised as the psychology of the novel's heroes: they are seekers.”

— Georg Lukacs