Books Quote by Roland Barthes Download Open image “It must always be considered as though spoken by a character in a novel” — Roland Barthes ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.0 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books Character Novel
Every so often you read a play and a character just speaks to you - almost seems to speak through you, in fact. — Alan Rickman Copy Share Image
Character and story are suggested by the voice in the words themselves. — Jayne Anne Phillips Copy Share Image
Speech recognition is utterly crap for writing fiction. If you try reading a novel aloud you'll soon figure out why - written prose style… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
The world is full of novels in which characters simply say and do. There are certainly legitimate genres in which this is sufficient. But… — Ruth Park Copy Share Image
Sometimes it's the words we choose not to say that speak most loudly about our character. — Lysa TerKeurst Copy Share Image
Sometimes I'll get a premise, you know, for a book. In fact, I get those quite often. And I don't commit to it until… — Kimberly Willis Holt Copy Share Image
When I write, I actually hear the characters speak. Almost like an actor - even though I'm not an actor at all - getting… — Kareem Mortimer Copy Share Image
The reason I never wrote a novel is that I don't have what it takes to write characters, so they would all be talking… — Wim Wenders Copy Share Image
“The problem lies not with the characters within the novel, but with the reader itself.” — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
I feel character description from a book can mislead you and actually make you fall off course when you're representing a character using a… — Will Poulter Copy Share Image
The thing a writer has to avoid is being the 'voice' of his people and pretending he can speak for them. — Derek Walcott Copy Share Image
I feel it's very important to let individual writers' voices come through. But the character has to be consistent. — Paul Lieberstein Copy Share Image
“Werther identifies himself with the madman, with the footman. As a reader, I can identify myself with Werther. Historically, thousands of subjects have done… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
“Valéry used to speak of those people who die in an accident because they are unwilling to let go of their umbrellas; how many… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
Today there is no symbolic compensation for old age, no recognition of a specific value: wisdom, perceptiveness, experience, vision. — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
The unary Photograph has every reason to be banal, 'unity' of composition being the first rule of vulgar (and notably, of academic) rhetoric: 'The… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
“Man does not exist prior to language, either as a species or as an individual. We never encounter a state where man is separated… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
“It is said that Time soothes mourning – No, Time makes nothing happen; it merely makes the emotivity of mourning pass.” — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
“So long as I perceive the world as hostile, I remain linked to it: *I am not crazy*. But sometimes, once my bad temper… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
I think that cars today are almost the exact equivalent of the great Gothic cathedrals: I mean the supreme creation of an era, conceived… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
“(Sartre) (The world is full without me, as in Nausea; the world plays at living behind a glass partition; the world is in an… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
“Like love, mourning affects the world—and the worldly—with unreality, with importunity. I resist the world, I suffer from what it demands of me, from… — Roland Barthes 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
