Books Quote by Katherine Anne Porter

A novel is like a bow, and the violin that produces the sound is the reader's soul.

— Stendhal

A symphony must be like the world. It must contain everything.

— Gustav Mahler

Writing a play, you start with less, so more is demanded of you. It's as if you have to not only write a symphony,…

— David Ives

A symphony is a stage play with the parts written for instruments instead of for actors.

— Colin Wilson

You can't play a symphony alone, it takes an orchestra to play it.

— Navjot Singh Sidhu

The West has given the world the symphony, and the novel.

— Ibn Warraq

“Every page of a great novel should be crafted like a beautiful melody, to linger on long after the music stops playing.”

— Johnny Flora

It's like a whole orchestra, the piano for me.

— Dave Brubeck

To me, the piano in itself is an orchestra.

— Cecil Taylor

“The range of rhythms in prose is larger and grander than it is in poetry, and it can handle discursive ideas and plain information…

— Annie Dillard

To play with a symphony today is just fabulous.

— Glen Campbell

“You may only be a small musical note in the realms of life, but together with others you make a symphony.”

— Stephen Richards