{"quotes":[{"text":"Fueled by my inspiration, I ran across the room to steal the cup of coffee the bookshelf had taken prisoner. Lapping the black watery brew like a hyena, I tossed the empty cup aside. I then returned to the chair to continue my divine act of creation. Hot blood swished in my head as my mighty pen stole across the page.","author":"Roman Payne","tags":["art","artists","artists-life","coffee","creation","creativity","fiction-writing","hyena","inspiration","novelists","payne","roman-payne","work","writing"],"id":3942,"author_id":"Roman+Payne"},{"text":"That's a good point,' Professor Hirota said. 'But there is one thing we ought to keep in mind in the study of man. Namely, that a human being placed in particular circumstances has the ability and the right to do just the opposite of what the circumstances dictate. The trouble is, we have this odd habit of thinking that men and light both act according to mechanical laws, which leads to some stunning errors. We set things up to make a man angry, and he laughs. We try to make him laugh, and again he does the opposite, he gets angry. Either way, though, he's still a human being.'Hirota had enlarged the scope of the problem again.'Well, then, what you're saying is, no matter what a human being does in a particular set of circumstances, he is being natural,' said the novelist at the far end of the table.'That's it,' Hirota shot back. 'It seems to me that you might create any sort of character in a novel and there would be at least one person in the world just like him. We humans are simply incapable of imagining non-human actions or behavior. It's the writer's fault if we don't believe in his characters as human beings.","author":"Sōseki Natsume","tags":["characters","novelists","writing"],"id":11335,"author_id":"S%C5%8Dseki+Natsume"},{"text":"The novelist is condemned to wander all his life. Homeless and blind like Oedipus he wanders until death. And so let us protect the novelist and adore him, with pity, honor, and love.","author":"Roman Payne","tags":["-on-","novelists","novelists-life","oedipus","oedipus-the-king","writers-life"],"id":20037,"author_id":"Roman+Payne"},{"text":"Sigmund Freud was a novelist with a scientific background. He just didn’t know he was a novelist. All those damn psychiatrists after him, they didn’t know he was a novelist ei.","author":"John Irving","tags":["freud","novelists","psychiatrists","science","sigmund-freud"],"id":24124,"author_id":"John+Irving"},{"text":"...He was after all, a novelist...And a novelist was simply a fellow who got paid to tell lies. The bigger the lies, the better the pay.","author":"Stephen King","tags":["novelists","truth","writing"],"id":38433,"author_id":"Stephen+King"},{"text":"The bicycle, the bicycle surely, should always be the vehicle of novelists and poets.","author":"Christopher Morley","tags":["bicycles","novelists","poets"],"id":45083,"author_id":"Christopher+Morley"},{"text":"He had entered another imaginative world, one connected to the beginning of his life as a writer, to the Napoleonic world that had been a lifelong metaphor for the power of art, for the empire of his own creation He began to dictate notes for a new novel, 'fragments of the book he imagines himself to be writing.' As if he were now writing a novel of which his own altered consciousness was the dramatic center, he dictated a vision of himself as Napoleon and his own family as the Imperial Bonapartes....William and Alice he grasped with his regent hand, addressing his 'dear and most esteemed brother and sister.' To them, to whom he had granted countries, he now gave the responsibility of supervising the detailed plans he had created for 'the decoration of certain apartments, here of the Louvre and Tuileries, which you will find addressed in detail to artists and workment who take them in hand.' He was himself the 'imperial e.","author":"Fred Kaplan","tags":["art","creativity","death","delirium","hallucination","imagination","language","novel-writing","novelists","sentence-structure","syntax","writing"],"id":51070,"author_id":"Fred+Kaplan"},{"text":"A novelist can’t be without a kimono and pen!(Shigure).","author":"Natsuki Takaya","tags":["humor","kimono","novelists","shigure","writers"],"id":68160,"author_id":"Natsuki+Takaya"},{"text":"I now understand that writing fiction was a seed planted in my soul, though I would not be ready to grow that seed for a long time.","author":"Sue Monk Kidd","tags":["fiction","novelists","novels","writers","writing"],"id":72450,"author_id":"Sue+Monk+Kidd"},{"text":"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 of 'real' life. A novelist is someone who confuses his own life with that of his characters.","author":"Alain Robbe-Grillet","tags":["fiction","novelists","novels","reality"],"id":77186,"author_id":"Alain+Robbe-Grillet"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":32,"pages":4,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}