Goes on Quote by Virginia Woolf

The recent extraordinary discovery in Photography, as applied in the operations of the mind, has reduced the art of novel-writing to the merest mechanical…

— Lewis Carroll

The materials of the novelist must be real; they must be gathered from the field of humanity by his actual observation.

— Goldwin Smith

“The greatest and most difficult task of a writer is bridging the gap between reality...and the unimaginable”

— Jason W. Blair

Only photography has been able to divide human life into a series of moments, each of them has the value of a complete existence.

— Eadweard Muybridge

“Of all the means of expression, photography is the only one that fixes forever the precise and transitory instant. We photographers deal in things…

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

The greatest field of photography, for the literary interpretation of life, consists, to my mind, in its latent power to create, as it were,…

— Pierre Mac Orlan

“For the last fifty years or so, The Novel’s demise has been broadcast on an almost weekly basis. Yet it strikes me that whatever…

— Lance Olsen

A novel is never anything, but a philosophy put into images.

— Jim Rohn

I want work that, possessing as thin a membrane as possible between life and art, foregrounds the question of how the writer solves being…

— David Shields

As writers, we can do whatever we want to. We're only limited by our imaginations. What an amazing, incredible time to be alive. How…

— J.A. Konrath

The impulse to write a novel comes from a momentary unified vision of life.

— Angus Wilson

Real novelists, those we admire, those we consider timeless in their language and character and scene, those who receive accolades for inventive language and…

— Susan Straight