Novakovich Quotes & Sayings

It was an epiphany when I realized you don't have to call yourself a linguist, a translator, a poet. You can call yourself an artist and you can do all these things. — Jan Peacock

The fear of lightning is one of the most distressing infirmities a human being can be afflicted with. It is mostly confined to women, but now and then you find it in a little dog, and sometimes a man. — Mark Twain

The most common misperception about me is that I write fast. I just write often. Every hour that I can. — Joyce Carol Oates

In Globetrotter, David Albahari explores the consciousness of emigres from the former Yugoslavia, Croatia and Serbia, showing that while abroad, many of us are even more intensely preoccupied with our histories than we were while living in Yugoslavia. His narrative structured out of realistic details and perceptions with self-conscious meditation blending history, civilization and its discontents, and personal experience reaches a density and intensity akin to Krasznahorkai's and Thomas Bernhard's. An intensely idiosyncratic narrative, enjoyable and thoughtful. — Josip Novakovich

An imagination submitted to the movement of the Holy Spirit is a powerful tool in the hands of God to write testaments of His glory. — Alisa Hope Wagner

"Foreboding" and "ominous" is what you're striving to achieve-not mention. — Josip Novakovich

Dialogue is easy. It's what you've been doing almost every day, most of your life. — Josip Novakovich

Fiction is an expressionist painting rather than a photograph. — Josip Novakovich

Justin Hermann is one of the best new voices in short fiction-deep and entertaining as hell, with many funny lines, unexpected turns of events, and great insights. Wonderful stories: each one is a trip! — Josip Novakovich

But that did not make Mirko happy - the world was melting away; what was a grade compared with the world? He gazed through the windows and watched the thickly falling snow. — Josip Novakovich

But I love your feet only because they walked upon the earth and upon the wind and upon the waters, until they found me. — Pablo Neruda

He must have given up on image making because his eyes had failed to see something they had yearned for; his mind had failed to capture whatever it had hoped, and that probing gaze perhaps expressed alarm at the emptying of his vision, at the dissolution of the things see, observed, into a meaningless vastness. — Josip Novakovich

You don't need to wait for inspiration to write. It's easier to be inspired while writing that while not writing ... — Josip Novakovich

You can't resolve a dilemma with all the very same mind that made it — Albert Einstein

A powerful agent is the right word. Whenever we come upon one of those intensely right words in a book or newspaper the resulting effect is physical as well as spiritual, and electrically prompt ... — Mark Twain

Something in the movement of fingers on the keyboard enhances thought. Fingers pull your thoughts forward. Fingers are in some way an extension of your brain, with a lot of cortex associations at their trigger. Get them going! — Josip Novakovich