Eye Quote by Flannery O'Connor

The novelist helps us to see things we might not notice otherwise.

— Madeleine L'Engle

The materials of the novelist must be real; they must be gathered from the field of humanity by his actual observation.

— Goldwin Smith

Over time, I have come to see the work of literature less as narrating the world than "seeing the world with words." From the…

— Orhan Pamuk

A good writer refuses to be socialized. He insists on his own version of things, his own consciousness. And by doing so he draws…

— Bill Barich

The writer must be universal in sympathy and an outcast by nature: only then can he see clearly.

— Julian Barnes

The writer, unlike his non-writing adult friend, has no predisposed outlook; he seldom observes deliberately. He sees what he didnot intend to see; he…

— Elizabeth Bowen

A great novelist must open the reader's heart, allow the reader to remember the vastness and glory -- and shame and shabbiness -- of…

— Carolyn See

The role of the writer is not to say what we can all say, but what we are unable to say. Most of the…

— Anais Nin

Few authors understand themselves, and a proper reader must not only understand his author but also be able to see beyond him

— Johann Georg Hamann

The function of the novelist... is to comment upon life as he sees it.

— Frank Norris

The writer must believe that what he is doing is the most important thing in the world. And he must hold to this illusion…

— John Steinbeck

The simple point is that literature belongs to the world man constructs, not to the world he sees; to his home, not his environment.

— Northrop Frye