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Cricket, like the novel, isgreat when it presents men in the round, when it shows the salty quality of human nature.
Oh! it is onlya novel!only some work in which the most thorough knowledge of human nature, the happiest delineationof itsvarieties,theliveliesteffusions of wit and humour are conveyed to the world in the best chosen language.
La passion est toute l'humanite . Sans elle, la religion, l'histoire, le roman, l'art seraient inutiles. Passion is all of humanity.Without it, religion, history, the novel and art would be useless.
A novel is balanced between a few true impressions and the multitude of false ones that make up most of what we call life.
The modern novel has been many things, and functioned at many levels. It would keep D.H. Lawrence poor, and make Jilly Cooper and Jeffrey Archer rich.
The post-war period has not been marked bya great aesthetic debate about the novel comparable to that of the earlier half of the century, in part because the role of the writer and critic divided, the writer going off to the marketplace and the critic to the university (which eventually turned out to be much the same thing).
My scrofulous French novel On grey paper with blunt type!
I found myself growing increasingly irritated with the notion of a British novel, which was really an irritation with the word British, a grey, unsatisfactory, bad- weather kind of word, a piece of linguistic compromise.
A novel is never anything but a philosophy put into images.
If I were a writer, how I would enjoy being told the novel is dead.How liberating to work in the margins, outside a central perception.Youaretheghoul of literature.Lovely.
We agreed that the novel is absolutely the only vehicle for the thought of our day.
Yesoh dear yesthe novel tells a story.
Just as the camera draws a stake through the heart of serious portraiture, television has killed the novel of social reportage.
He las! Les femmes n'ont lu que le roman de l'homme et jamais son histoire. Alas, women have read only the novel of mankind, not the history.
Writing a novel does not become easier with practice.
A novel is an impression, not an argument.
When a writer calls his work a Romance, it need hardly be observed that he wishes to claim a certain latitude, both as to its fashion and material, which he would not have felt himself entitled to assume had he professed to be writing a Novel.
Landscape is to American painting what sex and psychoanalysis are to the American novel.
The only obligation to which in advance we may hold a novel, without incurring the accusation of being arbitrary, is that it be interesting.
I thought that writing a detective story would be a wonderful apprenticeship because, whatever people tell you, a crime novel is not easy to write well. As I continued with my craft I became increasingly fascinated by the form and realized that you can use the formula to say something true about men and women and the society in which they live.
I have met with women whom I really think would liketo be married to a poem, and to be given away by a novel.
You mustn't look inmy novel for the old stable ego of the character.
But thisnovel wasnot a trumpet for Women's Liberation. It described many female emotions of aggression, hostility, resentment. It put them into print. Apparently what many women were thinking, feeling, experiencing came as a great surprise.
He understoodWalt Whitman, who laid end to end words never seen in each other's company before outside of a dictionary, and Herman Melville who split the atom of the traditional novel in the effort to make whaling a universal metaphor.
When a novel comes, it's a grace. Something in the cosmos has forgiven you long enough so that you can start.
The greatest invention since the novel.
Fora Jewish Puritanofthemiddleclass,thenovel isserious, the novel is work, the novel is conscientious application why,thenovelispractically theretailbusinessalloveragain.
There was a time when the average reader read a novel simply for the moral he could get out of it, and however na|«ve that may have been, it was a good deal less na|«ve than some of the limited objectives he has now.
The novel is practicallya Protestant form of art; it is the product of the free mind, of the autonomous individual.
People think that because a novel's invented, it isn't true. Exactly the reverse is the case.
Writing a novel you haveto be quiteawarethat what you are writing is not all true. Such a character did not cross the road at such a time; this is not true.
I believe I have liberated the novel in many ways, showing how anything whatsoever can be narrated, including sheerdamn cheek.Ithink Ihave openeddoors and windows in the mind, and challenged fearsespecially the most inhibiting fears about what a novel should be.
Think of the heroism of Johnson, think of that superb indifference to mortal limitation that set him upon his dictionary, and carried him through triumphantly until the end! Who, if he were wisely considerate of things at large, would ever embark upon any work much more considerable than a halfpenny post-card? Who would project a serial novel, afterThackeray and Dickens had each fallen in mid-course? Who would find heart enough to begin to live, if he dallied with the consideration of death?
It is admitted that a novel can hardly be made interesting or successful without love It is necessary because the passion is one which interests or has interested all. Everyone feels it, has felt it, or expects to feel it.
We cannot have heroes to dine with us. There are none. And were those heroes to be had, we should not like themthe persons whom you cannot care for in a novel, because they are so bad, are the very same that you so dearly love in your life, becausetheyare so good.
A novel is a static thing that one moves through; a play is a dynamic thing that moves past one.
Lady Peabury was in the morning room reading a novel; 892 early training gave a guilty spice to this recreation, for she had been brought up to believe that to read a novel before luncheon was one of the gravest sins it was possible for a gentlewoman to commit.
Above all I was determined to prove that the Australian novel is not necessarily the dreary, dun-coloured offspring of journalistic realism.
The impulse to write a novel comes from a momentary unified vision of life.
Webster's New World Dictionary of Quotations Copyright © 2010 by Chambers Harrap Publishers Ltd. All rights reserved. Published by Wiley, Hoboken, NJ. Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
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