Books Quote by Jonathan Dee Download Open image “Novels are a kind of experiment in selfhood, for the reader as well as for the author.” — Jonathan Dee ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books Experiments Identity Kind Novel Reader Wells
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
Sometimes people write novels and they just be so wordy and so self-absorbed. — Kanye West Copy Share Image
All writing is an act of self-exploration. Even a grocery list says something about you; how much more does a novel say? — Steven Saylor Copy Share Image
Novels function and the power of novels function because of their stories. — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
Novelists are in the business of constructing consciousness out of words, and that's what we all do, cradle to grave. The self is a… — James Gleick Copy Share Image
Novels for me are how I find out what's going on in my own head. And so that's a really useful and indeed critical… — Cory Doctorow 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
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
I do want to say the process of writing a novel is riddled with self-doubt and self-loathing. — Meg Wolitzer Copy Share Image
Novels are so interior and idiosyncratic and such a solitary process. — Megan Abbott Copy Share Image
Novels are not about expressing yourself, they're about something beautiful, funny, clever and organic. Self-expression? Go and ring a bell in a yard if… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
Those who know New York City primarily through tourism or mass culture may think of us natives as possessing certain shared characteristics, not all… — Jonathan Dee Copy Share Image
I wrote my first novel in the same conditions as most first novelists - I had a full-time job, I shared an apartment, I… — Jonathan Dee Copy Share Image
That's a long way of saying no, I'm always too bound up in thinking about the characters in whatever I'm working on and trying… — Jonathan Dee Copy Share Image
I have no desire to write historical anything or futuristic anything - I want to find a way to get at the essence of… — Jonathan Dee Copy Share Image
The Postman Always Rings Twice that's a book that I think every writer should read - that has to do with technique. But it's… — Jonathan Dee Copy Share Image
I once saw John Updike get in front of a crowd and read a story that he'd written in 1958, and I just thought,… — Jonathan Dee Copy Share Image
It's nice to have something else going on when a book comes out so you're not just sitting by the phone, waiting for things… — Jonathan Dee Copy Share Image
“That mysterious foreknowledge of my success in life was sweeter to me than the success itselt.” — Jonathan Dee Copy Share Image
“I mean she's not exactly a complex figure. You can look at her and pretty much imagine what that whole relationship was like. She's… — Jonathan Dee Copy Share Image
That's really the essence of what any fiction writer does. Some of it is research-based, but most of it is a really long-term, imaginative,… — Jonathan Dee Copy Share Image
It's not really an original idea, but there's something that goes along with power and celebrity that starts to make you feel like you're… — Jonathan Dee 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
