Novel Quote by Julien Green Download Open image “A scrupulous man will never produce a great novel.” — Julien Green ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.5 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Novel Produce
A man would never get the notion of writing a book on the peculiar situation of the human male. — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
He who never ventures beyond actuality will never win the prize of truth. — Friedrich Schiller Copy Share Image
Novelists should never allow themselves to weary of the study of real life. — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
Pay no attention to the criticism of men who have never themselves written a notable work. — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
“The novelist is like a scout commissioned to go and see what is happening in the depth of the soul. He comes back and… — Julien Green Copy Share Image
Perhaps the greatest consolation of the oppressed is to consider themselves superior to their tyrants. — Julien Green Copy Share Image
I have always thought that by observing things with a great deal of attention you eventually wrest some of their secrets from them, making… — Julien Green Copy Share Image
“It has become somewhat trite, nowadays, to say that after so many years of destruction it is a kind of miracle that Paris is… — Julien Green Copy Share Image
The secret is to write just anything, to dare to write just anything, because when you write just anything, you begin to say what… — Julien Green Copy Share Image
“Sometimes we do things, without thinking, that make no sense to us until much later, and yet appear to have been prompted by the… — Julien Green Copy Share Image
If people only knew what lies at the heart of my novels! What a tumult of desires these carefully written pages conceal! I sometimes… — Julien Green Copy Share Image
“What we give the world, we have borrowed from no one; it is ours. It may be taken from us, stolen from us, but… — Julien Green Copy Share Image
The greatest explorer on this earth never takes voyages as long as those of the man who descends to the depth of his heart. — Julien Green Copy Share Image
“Things we could not tell each other with the width of the Atlantic between us we communicated from heart to heart in those imaginary… — Julien Green Copy Share Image
“I am the road running through Paris," says the Seine. 'I have carried off many images since you were a child and reflected many… — Julien Green 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
“Holy hell, Trev! What kind of move was that?” Trevor leaned over her with a big smile on his face. “You really thought I… — Cecilia Aubrey & Chris Almeida Copy Share Image
I think of novels as houses. You live in them over the course of a long period, both as a reader and as a… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
I have often heard that the novel is dead. But I see novels produced, I don't know how many a week, in France. I… — Nathalie Sarraute Copy Share Image
Neither novels or their readers benefit from any attempts to divine whether any facts hide inside a story. Such efforts attack the very idea… — John Green Copy Share Image
I'm not interested in making a diagnostic novel or a concern. I'm 100 percent committed in fiction to the pleasure principle - that's what… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
If writing novels is like planting a forest, then writing short stories is more like planting a garden. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Dominion is a spy novel, a love story, and also I hope gives some sense of the difficulties faced by dissidents under any totalitarian… — C.J. Sansom Copy Share Image
At the outset, my notion of being a writer was that you would have moments of inspiration and moments of frustration, when you'd crumple… — Tom Rachman Copy Share Image
After I finished college, I got a job on Wall Street as a derivatives trader, but after a couple years of it, I was… — Philipp Meyer Copy Share Image
What I strive to do is make my characters seem like real people so that the reader experiences them as people - that's something… — Jaume Cabre Copy Share Image
