Top 7 James Wood Quotes (2024 Update)

James Wood Quote: “Literature differs from life in that life is amorphously full of detail, and rarely directs us toward it, wheras literature teaches us to notice. Literature makes us better noticers of life; we get to practice on life itself; which in turn makes us better readers of detail in literature; which in turn makes us better readers of life.”

1. “Literature differs from life in that life is amorphously full of detail, and rarely directs us toward it, wheras literature teaches us to notice. Literature makes us better noticers of life; we get to practice on life itself; which in turn makes us better readers of detail in literature; which in turn makes us better readers of life.”

James Wood Quote: “The house of fiction has many windows, but only two or three doors.”

2. “The house of fiction has many windows, but only two or three doors.”

James Wood Quote: “Publishers, readers, booksellers, even critics, acclaim the novel that one can deliciously sink into, forget oneself in, the novel that returns us to the innocence of childhood or the dream of the cartoon, the novel of a thousand confections and no unwanted significance. What becomes harder to find, and lonelier to defend, is the idea of the novel as – in Ford Madox Ford’s words – a “medium of profoundly serious investigation into the human case.”

3. “Publishers, readers, booksellers, even critics, acclaim the novel that one can deliciously sink into, forget oneself in, the novel that returns us to the innocence of childhood or the dream of the cartoon, the novel of a thousand confections and no unwanted significance. What becomes harder to find, and lonelier to defend, is the idea of the novel as – in Ford Madox Ford’s words – a “medium of profoundly serious investigation into the human case.”

James Wood Quote: “Narrative secrets are not the same as human mysteries, a lesson that novelists seem fates to forget, again and again; the former quickly confess themselves, and fall silent, while the true mysteries go on speaking.”

4. “Narrative secrets are not the same as human mysteries, a lesson that novelists seem fates to forget, again and again; the former quickly confess themselves, and fall silent, while the true mysteries go on speaking.”

James Wood Quote: “They believed that this world was fallen but that restitution would be provided elsewhere, in an afterlife. I believed that this world was fallen and that there was no afterlife.”

5. “They believed that this world was fallen but that restitution would be provided elsewhere, in an afterlife. I believed that this world was fallen and that there was no afterlife.”

James Wood Quote: “The sentence pulsates, moves in and out, toward the character and away from her – when we reach “huddled” we are reminded that an author allowed us to merge with his character, that the author’s magniloquent style is the envelope within which this generous contract is carried.”

6. “The sentence pulsates, moves in and out, toward the character and away from her – when we reach “huddled” we are reminded that an author allowed us to merge with his character, that the author’s magniloquent style is the envelope within which this generous contract is carried.”

James Wood Quote: “Beware: I’m unafraid to host a big spoiler party – a novel that can be truly “spoiled” by the summary of its plot is a novel that was already spoiled by that plot.”

7. “Beware: I’m unafraid to host a big spoiler party – a novel that can be truly “spoiled” by the summary of its plot is a novel that was already spoiled by that plot.”

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