Books Quote by Ntozake Shange Download Open image “Novels allow me to create a whole world.” — Ntozake Shange ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.7 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books Creativity Novel Whole Whole world World
I spend so long writing each of my novels that by the time I'm done with one, I'm ready to discover a totally different… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
Novels give you the opportunity to create a whole world. Because you create people, you make them talk... You decide who they are, whether… — Gioconda Belli Copy Share Image
The only way to write a novel is to proceed as if you had all the time in the world. — Philip Gerard Copy Share Image
What I like about writing novels is that I'm in my own world for nine months. — Jane Fallon Copy Share Image
I write the novels that are possible for me to write, not that ones I think will come across in a certain light. — Rachel Kushner Copy Share Image
Eventually, I realised that I wanted to try to create something myself, and that's what writing novels is. Not because I wanted to put… — Chris Pavone Copy Share Image
I wrote four novels, but then I realized that the world didn't need me to be a novelist, but the world could use me… — David Quammen Copy Share Image
I hope my novels will allow you to become lost in a world totally unlike the actual world we live in. I work hard… — Jay Neugeboren Copy Share Image
My characters don't talk necessarily in a normal American way of talking. They talk a little different. — Ntozake Shange Copy Share Image
It still amazes and fascinates me that women of color have kept my work alive for these many generations. — Ntozake Shange Copy Share Image
I write for young girls of color, for girls who don't even exist yet, so that there is something there for them when they… — Ntozake Shange Copy Share Image
My family moved around a lot, so I don't have any friends that I had all my life, but I did have annual trips… — Ntozake Shange Copy Share Image
i usedta live in the world really be in the world free & sweet talkin good mornin & thank-you & nice day uh huh… — Ntozake Shange Copy Share Image
The slaves who were ourselves had known terror intimately, confused sunrise with pain, & accepted indifference as kindness. — Ntozake Shange Copy Share Image
White people use their literature to maintain culture. That's why you find references to Milton and Spencer and Shakespeare and Dostoyevsky in contemporary novels. — Ntozake Shange Copy Share Image
Art gives us the opportunity to have clarity as well as hope that we might be able to survive a situation, or hope that… — Ntozake Shange Copy Share Image
I think art is a healing force, and if we give in to the joy that can be found in art, then we are… — Ntozake Shange 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
