Books Quote by Justin Cartwright Download Open image “Consciousness - that, to me, is the theme of the modern novel.” — Justin Cartwright ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.0 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books Consciousness Me Modern Novel Philosophy of Mind Theme
“The novel is an event in consciousness. Our aim isn't to copy actuality, but to modify and recreate our sense of it. The novelist… — George Buchanan Copy Share Image
“What we call consciousness is our ability to perceive stimuli and to file it within the parameters of our personal story.” — Steve Maraboli Copy Share Image
“The novel is, above all, an intense experience of prolonged intimacy with another consciousness.” — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
My thoughts went round and round and it occurred to me that if I ever wrote a novel it would be of the 'stream… — Barbara Pym Copy Share Image
“In the conscious- intellect awakens In the subconscious- awareness dissolves. In the unconscious- spirit awakens.” — Gian Kumar Copy Share Image
“Consciousness (conscientia) is participated knowledge, is co-feeling, and co-feeling is com-passion. Love personalizes all that it loves. Only by personalizing it can we fall… — Miguel de Unamuno Copy Share Image
One might say that the novel is the genre that most predisposes one to a profound insight into the tremendous life around us, instead… — Mikhail Sholokhov Copy Share Image
The themes that run through all my work are that consciousness is the ultimate reality; and that by understanding consciousness, you understand everything about… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
The contemporary memoir is playing an important role in at least just bringing certain relationships out into the open in American society, and also… — Marco Roth Copy Share Image
It's my own personal unconscious that ultimately creates the novel's aesthetic facade. — Manuel Puig Copy Share Image
“Consciousness provides the fertile ground where seeds of greatness are born.” — Gary Gordon Copy Share Image
My own interest in Kafka's letter came about when I was writing an article on Peter Ginz, the boy novelist held in Terezin, not… — Justin Cartwright Copy Share Image
Germany led the world in photography and film: 'The Cabinet of Dr Caligari' and 'Metropolis' are works that, to this day, film buffs revere. — Justin Cartwright Copy Share Image
I was lucky to get to Oxford. I am now an honorary fellow of my old college, which is nice, particularly for a colonial… — Justin Cartwright Copy Share Image
The plane approaches Cape Town and, as always, I am astonished by the view of Table Mountain and the surrounding sea. It is so… — Justin Cartwright Copy Share Image
Someone once pointed out that there are quite a lot of animals in my books, and I'm sure that is something to do with… — Justin Cartwright Copy Share Image
It is uncomfortable to be reminded that the Catholic church only removed the reference to 'perfidious Jews' from the Good Friday liturgy in 1960. — Justin Cartwright Copy Share Image
I have worshipped Berlin from the day I read 'Two Concepts of Liberty' in South Africa. It seemed to make it respectable to be… — Justin Cartwright Copy Share Image
So often in English fiction, people are either upper-class twits, or else they're knockabouts, less than human. — Justin Cartwright Copy Share Image
I write from what I take to be the realist's point of view, looking at life as it really is - or the way… — Justin Cartwright Copy Share Image
This Oscar Pistorius business is interesting. There is this cult of carrying lots of guns and being ready to shoot somebody. There were people… — Justin Cartwright Copy Share Image
The fascination with Judas has persisted despite the fact that there is no evidence of the hard facts of his life. Even the 'Iscariot'… — Justin Cartwright Copy Share Image
Nicola Barker is both prodigiously talented and admirably fearless. I have loved her books. But for some time, I had little or no idea… — Justin Cartwright 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
