Books Quote by Kenzaburo Oe Download Open image “I have survived by representing these sufferings of mine in the form of the novel.” — Kenzaburo Oe ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books Form Novel Representing Suffering Survived
I lived for four years in the 1930s with these individuals and the only time that I wasn't thinking about dealing with physical suffering… — Laura Hillenbrand Copy Share Image
Our sufferings and weaknesses, in so far as they are personal, are of no literary interest whatsoever. They are only interesting in so far… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
my life has been saved over and over again by picking up a book in which someone captured the whole experience of being despised… — Dorothy Allison Copy Share Image
The dramatic sufferings of adults and all the cruel fantasies of those of my own age, who seemed abandoned to their own impulses in… — Antoni Tapies Copy Share Image
It would have been impossible for me to have told anyone what I derived from these novels, for it was nothing less than a sense of life itself. [...] It had been only through books - at best, no more than vicarious cultural transfusions - that I had managed to keep myself alive in a negatively vital way. Whenever my… — Richard Wright Copy Share
Books that recount ordeals are precious because an ordeal is what we most fear, and the stories that tell us how to survive them… — Ramona Koval Copy Share Image
Whoever would write books? It's suffering as well as greatly satisfying. And certainly there's suffering in the sense that you don't know for a… — Alice Mattison Copy Share Image
I have suffered much; preserve my life, lord, according to your word. — Psalm 119:107 Copy Share Image
It is difficult to put into words what I suffered-the longing that seemed to be tearing my heart out by the roots, the dreadful… — Hector Berlioz Copy Share Image
Suffering is too strong a word, but writing is serious work. I pull the stuff up from me - it's not as if it's… — Colm Toibin Copy Share Image
I have both experienced and witnessed a great deal of suffering in my life, and that has informed my art. I'm here today, because… — C.E. Morgan Copy Share Image
“Bird, hesitating, recalled a line from the English textbook he was reading with his students; a young American was speaking angrily: Are you kidding… — Kenzaburo Oe Copy Share Image
“In introducing himself, he had said, "I'm the father," and the doctors had winced. Because something else must have echoed in their ears- I'm… — Kenzaburo Oe Copy Share Image
“I thought about death and was gripped by feelings which choked my chest and made my throat dry, a sudden pushing and shoving in… — Kenzaburō Ōe Copy Share Image
To be upright and to have an imagination: that is enough to be a very good young man. — Kenzaburo Oe Copy Share Image
The writer's job is the job of a clown …the clown who also talks about sorrow. — Kenzaburo Oe Copy Share Image
If any suffering was fruitless it was the agony of a hangover; what he suffered now could not expiate suffering of any other kind. — Kenzaburo Oe Copy Share Image
The ambiguous orientation of Japan drove the country into the position of an invader in Asia. — Kenzaburo Oe Copy Share Image
“If I'm a monster then I want to be a real monster. I'll become a monster and explode.” — Kenzaburō Ōe Copy Share Image
Paradoxically, the people and state of Japan living on such moral props were not innocent but had been stained by their own past history… — Kenzaburo Oe Copy Share Image
It is the second job of literature to create myth. But its first job is to destroy it. — Kenzaburo Oe Copy Share Image
In the recent years there have been criticisms levelled against Japan suggesting that she should offer more military forces to the United Nations forces… — Kenzaburo Oe Copy Share Image
There's no better reading experience than going to the place where a text was written. — Kenzaburo Oe 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
