Books Quote by Sarah Manguso

“writing a novel is extremely complicated. So complicated, in fact, that you cannot possibly hold your entire novel in your head all at once.…

— Nathan Bransford

“To think without a proper amount of good reading is to limit our thinking to our own tiny plot of ground.”

— A.W. Tozer

“Saying that studying the brain is limited to the study of physical entities would be like saying that literary criticism must focus on paper…

— Douglas R. Hofstadter

You can't sort of write the novel as if you're taking dictation from heaven.

— Martin Amis

“It is a wise writer who knows his own subconcious." And not only knows it but lets it speak of the world as it…

— Ray Bradbury

“The mind travels more freely on this limitless expanse, the contemplation of which elevates the soul, gives ideas of the infinite, the idea?”

— Gustave Flaubert

To read a novel is a difficult and complex art. You must be capable not only of great fineness of perception, but of great…

— Virginia Woolf

I probably read 100 times more than I write, but that way when I move my characters through it, I know.

— Jean M. Auel

“The Conscious Space Human consciousness is not very big. The conscious space that we use to process information about ourselves and others is only…

— John G. Shobris

“The writing of novels is one of the few ways I have found to approach the altar of God and Creation itself. You try…

— Pat Conroy

“But there is a limit to thinking about even a small piece of something monumental. You still see the shadow of the whole rearing…

— Jeff VanderMeer

“...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