Books Quote by Emma Healey Download Open image “With novels, you're representing things. You're not explaining.” — Emma Healey ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books Explaining Novels Representing Things
Ironically, writing a novel is not a way to sort out your confusion. — Curtis Sittenfeld Copy Share Image
You must understand that when you are writing a novel you are not making anything up. It's all there and you just have to… — Thomas Harris Copy Share Image
When you're writing a novel, you're still telling a story. But you're telling it very differently. It's a craft like anything else. — Howard Gordon Copy Share Image
There's a perception that novels can't usually allow for your kind of absolute attention to detail. — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
One of the things that happens in novels it's almost like a continual debate with yourself. That's why you're writing the book. It's why… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
In one deep sense, novels are concealed autobiography. I don't mean that you are telling facts about yourself, but you are trying to find… — Robert Penn Warren Copy Share Image
To me, novels are a trip of discovery, and you discover things that you don't know and you assume that many of your readers… — Tom Wolfe Copy Share Image
Novels attempt to render human experience; that's really all they are. They are meant to convey empathy for the character. — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
If I get enough letters saying you never explained this or that, I suppose I'll have to write another book. — Roger Zelazny Copy Share Image
I write novels because there is something I don't understand in reality. — Manuel Puig Copy Share Image
A book is basically just symbols arranged to form this story, this world. But on the other hand, books, novels, literature in general, is… — Shane Warren Jones Copy Share Image
People always want to give you advice about parenting. People who you've never met before will tell you you're doing something wrong. And it's… — Emma Healey Copy Share Image
I can trace my interest in modern classics to the summer before art college. — Emma Healey Copy Share Image
I was a 20-something woman living in London and didn't want to write about a 20-something woman living in London! It's an area well… — Emma Healey Copy Share Image
While I was writing 'Elizabeth Is Missing' and struggling with the intricacies of the plot, I told myself the next book would be really… — Emma Healey Copy Share Image
I feel like Mills and Boon saved my life. It was a way of not living. I read a lot of other books as… — Emma Healey Copy Share Image
I've been surprised that 'Elizabeth is Missing' has been so well received as a crime book. I love mystery stories, and that is what… — Emma Healey Copy Share Image
When I was writing my first novel, 'Elizabeth is Missing,' I was writing the only novel I had ever written and writing about the… — Emma Healey Copy Share Image
“My reflection always gives me a shock. I never really believed I would age, and certainly not like this.” — Emma Healey Copy Share Image
Sometimes people ask, 'If you'd never had a reader, would you carry on writing?' No. — Emma Healey Copy Share Image
Several members of my family have, or have had, one form of dementia or another. I really wanted to explore what it might like… — Emma Healey 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
