Books Quote by Ellen Glasgow Download Open image “For me, the novel is experience illumined by imagination.” — Ellen Glasgow ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books Imagination Novel
A novel, for me, relies on my imagination to inspire your (the reader's) imagination. It is not all there for you. My novels or… — Jay Neugeboren Copy Share Image
A novel usually begins, in my experience, with a thought or image that won't leave me alone. — John Lanchester Copy Share Image
“Fiction is a great combination between experience and imagination.” — Desi Puspitasari Copy Share Image
For me, a novel is always the result of my attempt to impose myself on raw circumstances. It is a concrete form of lived… — Rachel Cusk Copy Share Image
I find in most novels no imagination at all. They seem to think the highest form of the novel is to write about marriage,… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
“...a novel for me is a pretext, a way of starting up and sustaining a complicated and many layered inner exchange, a to-and-fro which… — Sven Birkerts 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 do like books to be quite an intense experience, and that's the kind of novel I respond to as a reader. — Jed Mercurio Copy Share Image
Most great works of the imagination were meant to make you feel like a stranger in your own home. The best fiction always forced… — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
My favorite novels allow me to imagine the characters afterward and what happened, and that I've witnessed a really great story, where the world… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Fiction is most effective when its themes are unspoken. An ideal fiction has a kind of thematic ghostliness, whereby the novel marks its meanings… — James Wood Copy Share Image
Fiction structures an experience for the reader to live through. ... That is why people read: to have experiences. — Bonnie Friedman Copy Share Image
I have watchedmany literary fashions shoot up and blossom, and then fade and drop.... Yet with the many that I have seen comeand go,… — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
After a day of rain the sun came out suddenly at five o'clock and threw a golden bar into the deep Victorian gloom of… — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
What I hated even more than the conflict was the lurid spectacle of a world of unreason. — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
Preserve, within a wild sanctuary, an inaccessible valley of reverie. — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
The attraction of horror is a mental, or even an intellectual, excitement, but the fascination of the repulsive, so noticeable incontemporary writing, can spring… — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
I was always a feminist, for I liked intellectual revolt as much as I disliked physical violence. On the whole, I think women havelost… — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
Although the primitive in art may be both interesting and impressive, as portrayed in American fiction it is conspicuous for dullness alone. Drab persons… — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
Do you know there is always a barrier between me and any man or woman who does not like dogs? — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
there are times when life surprises one, and anything may happen, even what one had hoped for. — Ellen Glasgow 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
