Josip Novakovich Quotes

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

  Josip Novakovich

  Inspiration, Writing, Waiting

  Josip Novakovich (2008). “Fiction Writer's Workshop”, p.6, Writer's Digest Books

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

  Josip Novakovich

  Easy, Dialogue

  Josip Novakovich (2008). “Fiction Writer's Workshop”, p.111, Writer's Digest Books

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

  Josip Novakovich

  Writing, Strive, Achieve

  Josip Novakovich (2008). “Fiction Writer's Workshop”, p.126, Writer's Digest Books

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• 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

  Thoughtful, Self, Yugoslavia

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• 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

  Voice, Lines, Events

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• 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

  Brain, Association, Keyboards

  Josip Novakovich (2008). “Fiction Writer's Workshop”, p.6, Writer's Digest Books

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• Fiction is an expressionist painting rather than a photograph.

  Josip Novakovich

  Fiction, Painting, Photograph

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