Aesthetic Quote by Manuel Puig Download Open image “It's my own personal unconscious that ultimately creates the novel's aesthetic facade.” — Manuel Puig ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.8 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Aesthetic Beauty Facade My own Novel Unconscious
I'm not conscious of my own themes as I write first drafts, no, and in fact, I work hard to stay in that unconscious… — Laurie Foos Copy Share Image
For me, a novel is always the result of my attempt to impose myself on raw circumstances. It is a concrete form of lived… — Rachel Cusk Copy Share Image
“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
Where the novel makes use of material from my life it does so because it's aesthetically convenient, not because of any allegiance it has… — Garth Greenwell Copy Share Image
Novels are so interior and idiosyncratic and such a solitary process. — Megan Abbott Copy Share Image
“...a novel for me is a pretext, a way of starting up and sustaining a complicated and many layered inner exchange, a to-and-fro which… — Sven Birkerts Copy Share Image
It's a complex thing when you're writing a novel, because so much of it is conscious and planned and deliberate, and so much of… — Benjamin Alire Saenz Copy Share Image
A novel is like a dream in which everyone is you. They’re all parts of yourself. — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
Novel-writing is a settling, lovely space. I call it self-indulgent - I feel mildly guilty about it. — Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor Copy Share Image
“I read novels to indulge in a concentrated and directed inner activity that parallels -- and thereby tunes up, accentuates -- my own inner… — Sven Birkerts Copy Share Image
The ideas for my books come about in two ways. There can be an intellectual idea that seems to be the reason for writing… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
I think cinema is closer to allegories than to reality. It's closer to our dreams. — Manuel Puig Copy Share Image
If it's great stuff, the people who consume it are nourished. It's a positive force. — Manuel Puig Copy Share Image
What's better, a poetic intuition or an intellectual work? I think they complement each other. — Manuel Puig Copy Share Image
Modern American cinema seems to me superficial. The intention is to understand a certain reality, and the result is nothing but a photographing of… — Manuel Puig Copy Share Image
Contrary to what Kafka does, I always like to refer all of my fictions to the level of reality, He, on the other hand,… — Manuel Puig Copy Share Image
I've always wondered why there isn't a great French novel about the German occupation. The nouveau roman authors weren't interested in telling that sort… — Manuel Puig Copy Share Image
I do believe that reading can help you understand what you're writing and see what others are doing. But sometimes the desire for more… — Manuel Puig Copy Share Image
I don't have traceable literary models because I haven't had great literary influences in my life. — Manuel Puig Copy Share Image
For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it's essential to be free. — Manuel Puig Copy Share Image
If a spectator with a philosophical mind, somebody accustomed to reading books, gets the same kind of information in a movie, he might not… — Manuel Puig Copy Share Image
What better model of a synthesis than a nocturnal dream? Dreams simplify, don't they? — Manuel Puig Copy Share Image
You feed yourself. Make sure you have all the information, whether it's aesthetic, scientific, mathematical, I don't care what it is. Then you walk… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
All efforts to render politics aesthetic culminate in one thing: war. — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
Design certainly has a cosmetic, aesthetic aim. It always aims at making things beautiful. But relevance is just as important. I often say, 'If… — Yves Behar Copy Share Image
I don't think I was ever thinking critically about my aesthetic, I think it's enough when you're little just to understand that you can… — Tavi Gevinson Copy Share Image
I'm kind of still down with Virg Woolf on this one: "women must kill the aesthetic ideal through which they themselves have been 'killed'… — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
Virtue is as little to be acquired by learning as genius; nay, the idea is barren, and is only to be employed as an… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
There is a certain aesthetic pleasure in trying to imagine the unimaginable and failing, if you are a reader. — A. S. Byatt Copy Share Image
I try to get the hip-hop aesthetic, most times without an MC. I don't use a rapper or a DJ to give it the… — Robert Glasper Copy Share Image
It's so important what you're doing in your life. It's tremendously important to the work, and no aesthetic theories take that into account. — John Maus Copy Share Image
It is not necessary to have an extravagant food budget in order to serve things with variety and tastefully cooked. It is not necessary… — Edith Schaeffer Copy Share Image
In reality no food is valued solely for its nutritive power and no garment or house solely for the protection it affords against cold… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Art is realistic when it strives to express an ethical ideal. Realism is striving for truth, and truth is always beautiful. Here the aesthetic… — Andrei Tarkovsky Copy Share Image
