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With a novelist, like a surgeon, you have to get a feeling that you've fallen into good hands - someone from whom you can accept the anesthetic with confidence. ↗


— Saul Bellow


#anesthetic #confidence #fallen #feeling #get

A good novel is worth more then the best scientific study. ↗


— Saul Bellow


#good #more #novel #scientific #scientific study

An Adult faith does not follow the waves of fashion and the latest novelties. ↗


— Pope Benedict XVI


#does #faith #fashion #follow #latest

I think the reason novels are regarded to have so much more 'information' than films is that they outsource the scenic design and cinematography to the reader... This, for me, is a powerful argument for the value and potency of literature specifically. Movies don't demand as much from the player. Most people know this; at the end of the day you can be too beat to read but not yet too beat to watch television or listen to music. ↗


— Brian Christian


#reading #design

Ah, Sir, a novel is a mirror carried along a high road. At one moment it reflects to your vision the azure skies, at another the mire of the puddles at your feet. And the man who carries this mirror in his pack will be accused by you of being immoral! His mirror shews the mire, and you blame the mirror! Rather blame that high road upon which the puddle lies, still more the inspector of roads who allows the water to gather and the puddle to form. ↗


— Stendhal


#novels #satire #social-criticism #satire

Being with Demetri wasn’t the absence of pain, it was the added presence of peace, making it easier and easier for that little part of my heart to heal again.--From Pull: A Seaside Novel ↗


— Rachel Van Dyken


#new-adult-romance #pull #tear-a-seaside-novel #contemporary

بلدٌ يقضي فيه المرء أوقاته متطلّعاً إلى السماء متأمّلا القمم الشاهقة ، هو بلدٌ لي ↗


— Amélie Nothomb


#mountains #novel #biography

Writing a novel is actually searching for victims. As I write I keep looking for casualties. The stories uncover the casualties." (Interview in Writers at Work: The Paris Review Interviews, Eighth Series, ed. George Plimpton, 1988) ↗


— John Irving


#craft #novels #victims #writing #writing-craft

Ending a novel is almost like putting a child to sleep – it can't be done abruptly." [Colm Tóibín, Novelist – Portrait of the Artist, The Guardian, 19 February 2013] ↗


— Colm Tóibín


#craft #novels #writing #writing-craft

Goodbyes are sad, but they are temporary, because as hellos ends with goodbyes, so will goodbyes start with hellos. ↗


— Melody Manful


#fantasy-fiction #guardian-angels #melody-manful #romance-novels #romance-novels






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