A novel should be an experience and conv... | Joyce Cary

Experience

A novel should be an experience and convey an emotional truth rather than arguments.

- Joyce Cary

Quote of the Day

I was never named in the early years as having anything to do with the assassination of Malcolm.

- Louis Farrakhan

Other quotes by Joyce Cary

Soul Politics

Religion is organized to satisfy and guide the soul - politics does the same thing for the body.

- Joyce Cary

Experience

A novel should be an experience and convey an emotional truth rather than arguments.

- Joyce Cary

Trees Imagination

Love doesn't grow on trees like apples in Eden - it's something you have to make. And you must use your imagination too.

- Joyce Cary

Nature God Nothing Being

God is a character, a real and consistent being, or He is nothing. If God did a miracle He would deny His own nature and the universe would simply blow up, vanish, become nothing.

- Joyce Cary

Right God Nothing Now Time

I look upon life as a gift from God. I did nothing to earn it. Now that the time is coming to give it back, I have no right to complain.

- Joyce Cary

Artist

Remember I'm an artist. And you know what that means in a court of law. Next worst to an actress.

- Joyce Cary

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Yield Research Experience

The experience reminds me of a favorite saying: Most of the yield from research efforts comes from the coal that is mined while looking for diamonds.

- Paul D. Boyer

Experience

The poet's perfect expression is the token of a perfect experience; what he says in the best possible way he has felt in the best possible way, that is, completely.

- John Drinkwater

Pretty Soul Experience

Well, we played with Soul Coughing once for like two days, that was pretty cool. I mean they were all good, you can pull a great experience from everything.

- Mike Lowry

Sound Experience Sense

The sense organs experience the external light, sound, etc. with difficulty; the different sense organs only have a so-called specific receptivity for particular stimuli.

- Johannes P. Muller

Desire Fact Experience End Want

If you take a lie and allow your desire for the truth, you'll end up with some truth - not fact, but something that gets you closer to the truth. That's what we want. When we go to a play, we need to be assured that the experience we're having.

- Denis Johnson

Words Experience

It is convenient to distinguish the two kinds of experience which have thus been described, the experienc-ing and the experienc-ed, by technical words.

- Samuel Alexander