Books Quote by Tayari Jones Download Open image “When you write a novel, you make other people see your imaginary friends.” — Tayari Jones ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books Friendship Imaginary Imaginary friend Novel People Writing
All a writer's characters are imaginary, no matter whether they are based on real people or not. They are people as one imagines them… — Allan Massie Copy Share Image
“This might sound a little nutty, but to write fiction is to live in an invented world with a set of imaginary friends.” — April Lindner Copy Share Image
You have to understand, writing a novel gets very weird and invisible-friend-from-childhood-ish. Then you kill that thing, which was never really alive except in… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
The good thing about writing a novel is that you're creating an imaginary world and can take a break when you need to. — Liane Moriarty Copy Share Image
The best part of the fiction in many novels is the notice that the characters are purely imaginary. — Franklin P. Adams Copy Share Image
It's true that writing is a solitary occupation, but you would be surprised at how much companionship a group of imaginary characters can offer… — Anne Tyler Copy Share Image
“The best part of the fiction in many novels is the notice that the characters are imaginary.” — Franklin P. Adams Copy Share Image
As so many writers know, the experience of creating an imaginary world is closer to dreaming than it is to normal, grit-your-teeth work. It's… — David Ignatius Copy Share Image
If you understand writing as primarily engaging an imaginary reader, well, you've kind of been doing that your whole life. You walk into a… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
Where had I been that I didn't know about imaginary friends? I could see the point of it. How a lost part of yourself… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
The art of the novel is to arrive at that artless point where your characters become more real than yourself. — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
I don't mind expressing my opinions and speaking out against injustice. I would be doing this even if I wasn't a writer. I grew… — Tayari Jones Copy Share Image
“Dwayne is right: blood does call to blood. I was always waiting for hers to beckon to mine, but I never considered that it… — Tayari Jones Copy Share Image
People say, That which doesn't kill you makes you stronger. But they are wrong. What doesn't kill you doesn't kill you. That's all you… — Tayari Jones Copy Share Image
“Some things were inevitable. You'd have to be a fool to think otherwise.” — Tayari Jones Copy Share Image
“What right did my father have to the details of my life? He squandered his chance to be the protective father. You can't come… — Tayari Jones Copy Share Image
Dwelling on pain, spending too much time immersed in it, tasting its flavors, fingering its textures--this makes it only more potent. — Tayari Jones Copy Share Image
I guess this is how love is when it comes undone. No matter how tight you knit the stitches, a sharp tug on a… — Tayari Jones Copy Share Image
“Everything was almost the same with her, but she went about her business in a way that put me in mind of an old… — Tayari Jones 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
