A novel is a writer’s rant disguised as entertainment…
– James Minter
Related Quotes:
- …but sometimes mindless entertainment was a release of its own. Most important, mindless entertainment didn’t come with complications. – Larissa Ione
- They want to see their expectation… Entertainment has nothing to do reality. Entertainment is antithetical to reality. – Michael Crichton
- A laugh a day does you more good than an apple -“ read a humours book … – James Minter
- The harsh reality is that my flesh must die not so much because of what it does, but because of what it is. – Kelly Minter
- A good-enough novel violently written now is better than a perfect novel meticulously written never. – Elizabeth Gilbert
- The only thing which can tell us about the novel is the novel. – Edwin Muir
- As far as I can tell, a young-adult novel is a regular novel that people actually read. – Stephen Colbert
- Now, my novel begins. No, now I begin my novel-”and yet I cannot decide whether to call myself I or she. – Elizabeth Hardwick
- A novel is always more complicated than it seems at the beginning. Indeed a novel should be more complicated than it seems at the beginning. – John Irving
- You never learn how to write a novel. You just learn how to write the novel that you’re writing. – Gene Wolfe
- Art helps you connect to the world, not escape from it. That is the difference between art and entertainment. – James Rozoff
- Writers don’t just create pages in a novel, but depth to worlds that become a safe haven for those who wish to escape the reality of their own. – TJ Mihaila
- Sometimes I wonder if novel writers aren’t completely f**ked in the head. ~ Drew Stirling – Jayden Hunter
- Let me tell you one thing about why writers write: had I known the answer to any of these questions I would never have needed to write a novel – Joan Didion
- Some writers aren’t writers, they are mere escapees’ and refugees’ on an exile from the jungle of thoughts. – Michael Bassey Johnson
- Writers are not just writers, they are creators of worlds, sculptors of the mind, they are architects of language. – Jamie L Harding
- Writers block occurs when a writer has nothing to say. Unfortunately not all writers experience it. – Ron Brackin
- The people I’ve known who wanted to become writers, knowing what it meant, did become writers. – John Gardner
- I think writers are the most narcissistic people. Well, I musn’t say this, I like many of them, a great many of my friends are writers. – Sylvia Plath
- I think writers are the most narcissistic people. Well, I musn’t say this, I like many of them, a great many of my friends are writers. – Sylvia Plath
- Writers are writing in every corner of the globe.Writers are writing, moreover, in rich countries and poor countries alike. – Minae Mizumura
- Basically, writers write because they have something to say…Everyone has a story in them, writers merely decide to share it with the world… – Virginia Alison
- Are writers the torchbearers of humanity? It’s a romantic idea, but it’s complete rubbish. We writers are the crocodiles in the river. – Pasi Ilmari Jskelinen
- Basically, writers write because they have something to say…Everyone has a story in them, writers merely decide to share it with the world… – Virginia Alison
- Writers, even unpublished writers, have a tendency not to notice what’s going on around them when they are the center of attention. – Gary Reilly
- The only difference between writers and people who don’t write is that writers aren’t afraid to display their demons. – Carla H Krueger
- All writers begin as readers, and the ones worth reading continue life as more prolific readers than writers. – Thomas Swick
- I don’t think writers should write about answers. I think writers should write about questions. – Paul Haggis
- People may not see you the way you see yourself. But, that’s because they don’t want to acknowledge your uniqueness. Jealousy is not disguised. – Amaka Imani Nkosazana
- We are meant to do the work of angels for we are often disguised from ourSelves. – Paresh Shah
- Freedom of action is disguised as a freedom of discipline. – Warren Cassell Jr
- Arguments about language are usually arguments about politics, disguised and channeled through one of our most distinctive markers of identity. – Robert Lane Greene
- You hate someone whom you really wish to love, but whom you cannot love. Perhaps he himself prevents you. That is a disguised form of love. – Sri Chinmoy
- Love is both wondrous and yet full of peril. Love is a gateway through which hatred – disguised and unrecognized – can pass. – David Gemmell
- The trouble with opportunity is that it always comes disguised as hard work. – Herbert V Prochnow
- In life, you will always be faced with a series of God-ordained opportunities brilliantly disguised as problems and challenges. – Charles Udall
- Opportunity…it often comes disguised in the form of misfortune or temporary defeat. – Napoleon Hill
- A democracy without values easily turns into open or thinly disguised totalitarianism. – John Paul II
- Evil would always come to me disguised in systems and dignified by law. – Pat Conroy
- He’s asleep in the harbor, disguised as dog shit. – Joe Haldeman