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quotes by topic Novelists

" I am a cage, in search of a bird. "

Bird , Novelists

" A whim, a passing mood, readily induces the novelist to move hearth and home elsewhere. He can always plead work as an excuse to get him out of the clutches of bothersome hosts. "

Home , Moving , Novelists

" The historian will tell you what happened. The novelist will tell you what it felt like. "

Novelists

" The few really great-the major novelists ... are significant in terms of the human awareness they promote; awareness of the possibilities of life. "

Tradition , Fiction , Novelists

" It is well to start by distinguishing the few really great - the major novelists who count in the same way as the major poets, in the sense that they not only change the possibilities of the art for practitioners and readers, but that they are significant in terms of the human awareness they promote; awareness of the possibilities of life. "

Art , Way , Novelists

" Like most novelists, I like to do exactly the opposite of what I'm told. It's in my nature as a novelist. Novelists can't trust anything they haven't seen with their own eyes or touched with their own hands. (Jerusalem Prize acceptance speech, JERUSALEM POST, Feb. 15, 2009) "

Haruki Murakami

Truth , Novelists