Aspects of life Quote by Virginia Woolf

“I read novels with the utmost pertinaity. I look upon them - I look upon good novels - as a very valuable part of…

— Patrick O'Brian

“The thought of the novelist that matters most is the thought that makes him a novelist. The thought of the novelist lies not in…

— Philip Roth

“ Whoever looks for the writer’s thinking in the words and thoughts of his characters is looking in the wrong direction. Seeking out a…

— Philip Roth

I believe a writer's most important skill lies in being able to see things from different perspectives.

— Patrick Rothfuss

“When he describes woman, each writer discloses his general ethics and the special idea he has of himself; and in her he often betrays…

— Simone de Beauvoir

“...consider yourself a functional character in someone else's novel - a background character - a person on the street - that's the perspective ...”

— John Geddes

“It is, of course, not only impossible for readers to know the intention of most, if not all, writers, but an author himself may…

— Russell M. Goldfarb

To achieve lasting literature, fictional or factual, a writer needs perceptive vision, absorptive capacity, and creative strength.

— Lawrence Clark Powell

“There is only one trait that marks the writer. He is always watching. It's a kind of trick of the mind and he is…

— Morley Callaghan

Many novelists take well-defined, precise characters, whose stories are sometimes of mediocre interest, and place them in an important historical context, which remains secondary…

— Raymond Queneau

“I am certain that a novelist is someone who attributes a different reality-value to the characters and events of his story than to those…

— Alain Robbe-Grillet

I have tried very hard as a novelist to say, 'Novels are about individuals and especially larger than life individuals.'

— Bharati Mukherjee