260 Quotations with Novel.
- 61. Dan Cruickshank: By Modernism, I mean the positive rejection of the past and the blind belief in ...
- 62. Wallace Stevens: Democritus plucked his eye out because he could not look at a woman without thin ...
- 63. Lionel Trilling: Educating a son I should allow him no fairy tales and only a very few novels. Th ...
- 64. Howard Nemerov: For a Jewish Puritan of the middle class, the novel is serious, the novel is wor ...
- 65. Arthur Rimbaud: For a long time I found the celebrities of modern painting and poetry ridiculous ...
- 66. Milan Kundera: For a novelist, a given historic situation is an anthropologic laboratory in whi ...
- 67. George Orwell: Good novels are not written by orthodoxy-sniffers, nor by people who are conscie ...
- 68. Mark Twain: Happiness ain't a thing in itself -- it's only a contrast with something that ai ...
- 69. Lord Alfred Tennyson: He will hold thee, when his passion shall have spent its novel force, something ...
- 70. H. L. Mencken: Historian -- an unsuccessful novelist.
- 71. Leo C. Rosten: Humor is, I think, the subtlest and chanciest of literary forms. It is surely no ...
- 72. Christopher Hampton: I became a virtuoso of deceit. It wasn't pleasure I was after, it was knowledge. ...
- 73. Philip Roth: I cannot and do not live in the world of discretion, not as a writer, anyway. I ...
- 74. Irwin Shaw: I cringe when critics say I'm a master of the popular novel. What's an unpopular ...
- 75. James Humes: I don't like jokes in speeches; I do like wit and humor. A joke is to humor what ...
- 76. Gore Vidal: I find in most novels no imagination at all. They seem to think the highest form ...
- 77. Don Marquis: I get up in the morning with an idea for a three-volume novel, and by nightfall, ...
- 78. Edith Wharton: I have never known a novel that was good enough to be good in spite of its being ...
- 79. Cyril Connolly: I review novels to make money, because it is easier for a sluggard to write an a ...
- 80. Alan Bennett: I was an only child. I lost both my parents. By the time I was twenty I was bald ...
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