“ For a Jewish Puritan of the middle class, the novel is serious, the novel is work, the novel is conscientious application — why, the novel is practically the retail business all over again. ”
- Howard Nemerov- Copy
- 1K
“ Prose on certain occasions can bear a great deal of poetry; on the other hand, poetry sinks and swoons under a moderate weight of prose. ”
- Walter Savage Landor- Copy
- 1.7K
“ Writing a book of poetry is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo. ”
- Don Marquis- Copy
- 2.1K
“ With Shakespeare and poetry, a new world was born. New dreams, new desires, a self consciousness was born. I desired to know to know myself in terms of the new standards set by these books. ”
- Peter Abrahams- Copy
- 836
“ Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other folks have lent me. ”
- Anatole France- Copy
- 2.9K
“ A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author. ”
- G. K. Chesterton- Copy
- 2K
“ A good novel is an indivisible sum; every scene, sequence and passage of a good novel has to involve, contribute to and advance all three of its major attributes: theme, plot, characterization. ”
- Ayn Rand- Copy
- 611
“ A good novel tells us the truth about it's hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author. ”
- Gilbert K. Chesterton- Copy
- 246
“ Good novels are not written by orthodoxy-sniffers, nor by people who are conscience-stricken about their own orthodoxy. Good novels are written by people who are not frightened. ”
- George Orwell- Copy
- 1.2K
“ I cringe when critics say I'm a master of the popular novel. What's an unpopular novel? ”
- Irwin Shaw- Copy
- 3.2K
“ I find in most novels no imagination at all. They seem to think the highest form of the novel is to write about marriage, because that's the most important thing there is for middle-class people. ”
- Gore Vidal- Copy
- 2.1K
“ My springboard is always the script. Even if the script is taken from a novel, I often haven't read the novel… . ”
- John Hurt- Copy
- 3.1K
“ If you have to write you'll write. You don't choose the writer's life, the writer's life chooses you. ”
- Tom Grimes- Copy
- 3K
“ I can’t write without a reader. It’s precisely like a kiss - you can’t do it alone. ”
- John Cheever- Copy
- 213
“ For a long time I found the celebrities of modern painting and poetry ridiculous. I loved absurd pictures, fanlights, stage scenery, mountebanks backcloths, inn-signs, cheap colored prints; unfashionable literature, church Latin, pornographic books badly spelt, grandmothers novels, fairy stories, little books for children, old operas, empty refrains, simple rhythms. ”
- Arthur Rimbaud- Copy
- 1.1K
“ The present era grabs everything that was ever written in order to transform it into films, TV programs; or cartoons. What is essential in a novel is precisely what can only be expressed in a novel, and so every adaptation contains nothing but the non-essential… ”
- Milan Kundera- Copy
- 1.2K
“ The novel has one peculiarity for a school novel: It never attacks the place; it isn't an expose; it doesn't show sadistic masters or depraved students, or use any of the other school-novel sensationalistic cliches. That's because I didn't experience things like that there. ”
- John Knowles- Copy
- 465
“ This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force. ”
- Dorothy Parker- Copy
- 1.6K
“ Any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has put on full armor and attacked a hot fudge sundae. ”
- Kurt Vonnegut- Copy
- 3.6K
“ Every journalist has a novel in him, which is an excellent place for it. ”
- Russel Lynes- Copy
- 3.5K
“ All humanity is passion; without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual. ”
- Honore de Balzac- Copy
- 1.7K
“ I can't understand why a person will take a year to write a novel when he can easily buy one for a few dollars. ”
- Fred Allen- Copy
- 747
“ The best part of the fiction in many novels is the notice that the characters are purely imaginary. ”
- Franklin P. Adams- Copy
- 1.3K
“ A fact is a simple statement that everyone believes. It is innocent, unless found guilty. A hypothesis is a novel suggestion that no one wants to believe. It is guilty, until found effective. ”
- Edward Teller- Copy
- 2.6K
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