Impediments Quote by Matthew Specktor Download Open image “The novelist is frequently considered to be an impediment.” — Matthew Specktor ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Impediments Novelists
“All novels are impossible. We would not wish to read them if they were not. Can you imagine how dull a tale would be… — Caitlin Williams Copy Share Image
A writer without interest or sympathy for the foibles of his fellow man is not conceivable as a writer. — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
Every writer knows he is spurious; every fiction writer would rather be credible than authentic. — John le Carre Copy Share Image
The writer - more especially the novelist - who has not, at one moment or another, considered his publisher unworthy of him, has still… — Storm Jameson Copy Share Image
“It is possible to be a great novelist - that is, to render a veracious account of your times - and a bad writer… — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
“I am certain that a novelist is someone who attributes a different reality-value to the characters and events of his story than to those… — Alain Robbe-Grillet Copy Share Image
Alan Moore's writing is almost novelistic. It's very intricate and wordy and smart. — Adrianne Palicki Copy Share Image
I think novelists, when they write their books, end up having occasionally serving a purpose and playing roles that they never really fully either… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
I think one of the mistakes typically with authors is they have written more books than they've read. — Larry Winget Copy Share Image
We go to literature because it shows us some set of humane values. It is showing us how to live. — Matthew Specktor Copy Share Image
I've always found too that somewhere in whatever you've just written lies the seed of what you're going to write next. — Matthew Specktor Copy Share Image
My own sense is that fiction is inching its way over to join poetry on the cultural margin. It's an area of passionate concern… — Matthew Specktor Copy Share Image
It's hard to imagine there's a place for great writing inside a multinational conglomerate. — Matthew Specktor Copy Share Image
Our need to identify with representative figures is something that never goes away. We still find those in novels. We find those in television.… — Matthew Specktor Copy Share Image
100 million dollars used to be the limit of what a movie might cost; now they routinely cost 300 million. Sooner or later, spectacle… — Matthew Specktor Copy Share Image
A lot of talent, a lot of the currency that movies used to have, has spilled over into TV. People talk about TV the… — Matthew Specktor Copy Share Image
Much to my surprise, there's a sense for people in the cable industry that fiction writers might actually be good at script writing. You… — Matthew Specktor Copy Share Image
Even though I think writers can sometimes thrive from being misread. It can give them something to push off of. — Matthew Specktor Copy Share Image
I'm going to write what I feel like writing, which is a great place to be. But it can be hard to get there.… — Matthew Specktor Copy Share Image
The feature film business, the studio film business, feels to me like there's just nowhere else to go. It's like a record that's just… — Matthew Specktor Copy Share Image
There's a kind of perverseness or betrayal in that idea that art is somehow superior to life. Or that it's more important to write… — Matthew Specktor Copy Share Image
Being a housewife, makes women sick.It may therefore be that married women say they are happy because they are sick.To be happy in a… — Jessie Bernard Copy Share Image
In general, we should be able to agree that those who have greater opportunities and face fewer impediments have a greater responsibility to do… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Fasting is not bodily hunger but bodily elevation and purity. It is not a body that hungers and longs for food, but a body… — Pope Shenouda III of Alexandria Copy Share Image
There cannot be any impediment to science that will ultimately be good to the general public. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A genuine passion is like a mountain stream; it admits of no impediment; it cannot go backward; it must go forward. — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
a white person who claims to have no impediment of vision in this country is not, I think, telling the whole truth. And when… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
PRIVATE, n. A military gentleman with a field-marshal's baton in his knapsack and an impediment in his hope. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
The inclination to aggression constitutes the greatest impediment to civilization. — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
When we are such as He can love without impediment, we shall in fact be happy. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Resistance to improvement contradicts the noblest instincts of the race. It begets its opposite. The fanaticism of reform is only the raging of the… — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
There are no impediments to meditation. The very thought of such obstacles is the greatest impediment. — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
