Books Quote by Romesh Gunesekera Download Open image “A novel means a new way of doing a story” — Romesh Gunesekera ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books Mean New ways Novel Stories Way
In my experience, a novel is the culmination of various thoughts and impressions collected over time, until something comes along to give them a… — J. Courtney Sullivan Copy Share Image
A novel is a way to rethink and rewrite and re-envision the past, and also a way to speak to people who haven't been… — Emily Barton Copy Share Image
Writing a story or a novel is one way of discovering sequence in experience, of stumbling upon cause and effect in the happenings of… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
“Every novel is brand-new. It’s never been written before in the history of the world. At the same time, it’s merely the latest in… — Thomas C. Foster Copy Share Image
A novel ensures that we can look before and after, take action at whatever pace we choose, read again and again, skip and go… — William Golding Copy Share Image
A novel is a daily labor over a period of years. A novel is a job. But a story can be like a mad,… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
I can’t explain how it is I keep having new ideas. But one book inevitably follows another. It is my way of exploring the… — Virginia Hamilton Copy Share Image
A novel is what you call something that won't sell if you call it poems or short stories. — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
That seems to be the definition of 'novel' for me: a story that hasn't yet discovered a way to be brief. — George Saunders Copy Share Image
A novel must work as a story because no one's going to get to the other themes if you don't entertain the reader. But… — Robert Cormier Copy Share Image
A novel, in the end, is a container, a shape which you are trying to pour your story into. — Helen Dunmore Copy Share Image
“What did they do with the mango-stone I sometimes found in their bedroom in the morning? All chewed up and wasted; rubbed out like… — Romesh Gunesekera Copy Share Image
“On this side of the wall is our house; in our backyard there is nothing. Nothing but red dust and round-headed black ants streaming… — Romesh Gunesekera Copy Share Image
“The time when it seemed friends became enemies and enemies became friends. But then that's perhaps the way it is, always. Nobody knows who… — Romesh Gunesekera Copy Share Image
“I like to know about the world beyond our shores. About faraway countries where people behave differently. I like to hear about their food… — Romesh Gunesekera Copy Share Image
“I carry more than dreams. There is so much in my head I wonder how I will ever get it out. How do I… — Romesh Gunesekera Copy Share Image
“So much is kept off limits these days. There are things we don't speak of, things we not only don't remember but carefully forget,… — Romesh Gunesekera 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
