Books Quote by Joyce Carey Download Open image “A novel points out that the world consists entirely of exceptions.” — Joyce Carey ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books
There are plenty of reasons not to put up with the world as it is, and if the book has any kind of message,… — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
The subject does not belong to the world; rather, it is a limit of the world — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
“The book should be the written counterpart of the unwritten world; its subject should be what does not exist and cannot exist except when… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
The novel is a big space, and a lot can happen. Just think about the parts of your life. How do we account for… — Rachel Kushner Copy Share Image
“Even though there is something out there that is not the world-for-us, and even though we can name it the world-in-itself, this latter constitutes… — Eugene Thacker Copy Share Image
I am convinced of the validity of contradiction. There are many worlds. Each is true, at its time, in its own fashion — Errol Flynn Copy Share Image
Every novel is-at the beginning-the same opening of a door onto a completely unknown space. — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Create a world in which these things do or do not exist, or in which they are extended in some way. Test reality against… — Theodore Sturgeon Copy Share Image
“Just because history says it isn't possible doesn't mean that there aren't exceptions.” — Gail Carriger Copy Share Image
No book includes the entire world. It's limited. And so it doesn't seem like an aesthetic compromise to have to do that. There's so… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
What I ask of [the writer] is not to ignore the reality and the fundamental problems that exist. The world's hunger, the atomic threat,… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
The world is a place where the extraordinary can sit just beside the ordinary with the thinnest of boundaries; that even in environments inhospitable… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“I want the best of everything for everybody, and it will cost millions.” — Joyce Carey 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