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The light that radiates from the great novels time can never dim, for human existence is perpetually being forgotten by man and thus the novelists discoveries, however old they may be, will never cease to astonish. – Milan KunderaRate it:
Poorly written novels--no matter how pious and edifying the behavior of the characters--are not good in themselves and are therefore not really edifying. – Flannery O'ConnorRate it:
'Serial' was modeled directly on serialized TV shows, with 'S-Town,' we were really thinking of novels. – Brian ReedRate it:
A lot of the Chinese comic and animation are developed from online novels that I have already read. I like them because I'm already a fan of the stories. – Tao JieRate it:
All great novels, all true novels, are bisexual. – Milan KunderaRate it:
All humanity is passion; without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual. – Honore De BalzacRate it:
At least half the mystery novels published violate the law that the solution, once revealed, must seem to be inevitable. – Raymond ChandlerRate it:
Democritus plucked his eye out because he could not look at a woman without thinking of her as a woman. If he had read a few of our novels, he would have torn himself to pieces. – Wallace StevensRate it:
Do your bit to save humanity from lapsing back into barbarity by reading all the novels you can. – Richard HughesRate it:
Educating a son I should allow him no fairy tales and only a very few novels. This is to prevent him from having 1. the sense of romantic solitude (if he is worth anything he will develop a proper and useful solitude) which identification with the hero gives. 2. cant ideas of right and wrong, absurd systems of honor and morality which never will he be able completely to get rid of, 3. the attainment of ideals, of a priori desires, of a priori emotions. He should amuse himself with fact only: he will then not learn that if the weak younger son do or do not the magical honorable thing he will win the princess with hair like flax. – Lionel TrillingRate it:
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 RimbaudRate it:
His legacy is Kwani? and the many new writers who were contributors to that journal and for whom opportunities opened up, kwani? inspired a generation of writers younger than Binyavanga to also write poetry, short stories, novels and writing became something that people believed was a career that they could pursue. – Tom MalitiRate it:
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 VidalRate it:
I review novels to make money, because it is easier for a sluggard to write an article a fortnight than a book a year, because the writer is soothed by the opiate of action, the crank by posing as a good journalist, and having an air hole. I dislike it. I do it and I am always resolving to give it up. – Cyril ConnollyRate it:
I was never in the bureaucracy, always in the theater, ive consciously tried not to romanticize anything, especially not intelligence work. Ive always said that Ive been writing a series of episodic, naturalistic novels. The people just happen to be spies, politicians, civil servants. If pediatricians lived lives in which the manipulation of emotions were the tools of the trade, I probably would have written about them. – Charles McCarryRate it:
I wonder if we are all wrong about each other, if we are just composing unwritten novels about the people we meet? – Rebecca WestRate it:
It is possible to address a very serious subject matter and still have humor. I've done it before. 'Do the Right Thing' was serious as hell. It was so serious you can still show that film today -- it's still contemporary. But 'Do the Right Thing' was also funny as a motherf*er, there are many examples -- music, plays, novels, movies -- where humor has been injected into very serious subject matter. – Spike Lee**Rate it:
It is possible to address a very serious subject matter and still have humor. I've done it before. 'Do the Right Thing' was serious as hell. It was so serious you can still show that film today -- it's still contemporary. But 'Do the Right Thing' was also funny as a motherf---er, there are many examples — music, plays, novels, movies — where humor has been injected into very serious subject matter. – Spike LeeRate it:
James Bondspreferred martini is James Bondspreferred martini, judging by how often James Bondspreferred orders them in James Bondspreferred novels, james Bondspreferred orders 19 vodka martinis, 16 gin martinis and one Vesper martini, made with both. – Bob NoletRate it:
Jane Austen died much too young, i think that Jane Austen early death seems such a waste that admirers of the novels can't help but try to explain it ; obviously, for some people, the more dramatic the explanation the better. – Shauna LynchRate it:
Novels are longer than life. – Natalie Clifford BarneyRate it:
Novels as dull as dishwater, with the grease of random sentiments floating on top. – Italo CalvinoRate it:
The best part of the fiction in many novels is the notice that the characters are purely imaginary. – Franklin P. AdamsRate it:
When the [ first ] book came out, I had absolutely no idea it was going to be such a massive hit, and then, to be followed by Robert Redford making really an iconic movie … I realized I don't want to compete with Robert Redford and that great work of art they did. So I had to let it go and go on and do a number of other novels. – Jack AndersonRate it:

The light that radiates from the great novels time can never dim, for human existence is perpetually being forgotten by man and thus the novelists discoveries, however old they may be, will never cease to astonish.

– Milan KunderaRate it:

Poorly written novels--no matter how pious and edifying the behavior of the characters--are not good in themselves and are therefore not really edifying.

– Flannery O'ConnorRate it:

'Serial' was modeled directly on serialized TV shows, with 'S-Town,' we were really thinking of novels.

– Brian ReedRate it:

A lot of the Chinese comic and animation are developed from online novels that I have already read. I like them because I'm already a fan of the stories.

– Tao JieRate it:

All great novels, all true novels, are bisexual.

– Milan KunderaRate it:

All humanity is passion; without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual.

– Honore De BalzacRate it:

At least half the mystery novels published violate the law that the solution, once revealed, must seem to be inevitable.

– Raymond ChandlerRate it:

Democritus plucked his eye out because he could not look at a woman without thinking of her as a woman. If he had read a few of our novels, he would have torn himself to pieces.

– Wallace StevensRate it:

Do your bit to save humanity from lapsing back into barbarity by reading all the novels you can.

– Richard HughesRate it:

Educating a son I should allow him no fairy tales and only a very few novels. This is to prevent him from having 1. the sense of romantic solitude (if he is worth anything he will develop a proper and useful solitude) which identification with the hero gives. 2. cant ideas of right and wrong, absurd systems of honor and morality which never will he be able completely to get rid of, 3. the attainment of ideals, of a priori desires, of a priori emotions. He should amuse himself with fact only: he will then not learn that if the weak younger son do or do not the magical honorable thing he will win the princess with hair like flax.

– Lionel TrillingRate it:

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 RimbaudRate it:

His legacy is Kwani? and the many new writers who were contributors to that journal and for whom opportunities opened up, kwani? inspired a generation of writers younger than Binyavanga to also write poetry, short stories, novels and writing became something that people believed was a career that they could pursue.

– Tom MalitiRate it:

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 VidalRate it:

I review novels to make money, because it is easier for a sluggard to write an article a fortnight than a book a year, because the writer is soothed by the opiate of action, the crank by posing as a good journalist, and having an air hole. I dislike it. I do it and I am always resolving to give it up.

– Cyril ConnollyRate it:

I was never in the bureaucracy, always in the theater, ive consciously tried not to romanticize anything, especially not intelligence work. Ive always said that Ive been writing a series of episodic, naturalistic novels. The people just happen to be spies, politicians, civil servants. If pediatricians lived lives in which the manipulation of emotions were the tools of the trade, I probably would have written about them.

– Charles McCarryRate it:

I wonder if we are all wrong about each other, if we are just composing unwritten novels about the people we meet?

– Rebecca WestRate it:

It is possible to address a very serious subject matter and still have humor. I've done it before. 'Do the Right Thing' was serious as hell. It was so serious you can still show that film today -- it's still contemporary. But 'Do the Right Thing' was also funny as a motherf***er, there are many examples -- music, plays, novels, movies -- where humor has been injected into very serious subject matter.

– Spike LeeRate it:

It is possible to address a very serious subject matter and still have humor. I've done it before. 'Do the Right Thing' was serious as hell. It was so serious you can still show that film today -- it's still contemporary. But 'Do the Right Thing' was also funny as a motherf---er, there are many examples — music, plays, novels, movies — where humor has been injected into very serious subject matter.

– Spike LeeRate it:

James Bondspreferred martini is James Bondspreferred martini, judging by how often James Bondspreferred orders them in James Bondspreferred novels, james Bondspreferred orders 19 vodka martinis, 16 gin martinis and one Vesper martini, made with both.

– Bob NoletRate it:

Jane Austen died much too young, i think that Jane Austen early death seems such a waste that admirers of the novels can't help but try to explain it ; obviously, for some people, the more dramatic the explanation the better.

– Shauna LynchRate it:

Novels are longer than life.

– Natalie Clifford BarneyRate it:

Novels as dull as dishwater, with the grease of random sentiments floating on top.

– Italo CalvinoRate it:

The best part of the fiction in many novels is the notice that the characters are purely imaginary.

– Franklin P. AdamsRate it:

When the [ first ] book came out, I had absolutely no idea it was going to be such a massive hit, and then, to be followed by Robert Redford making really an iconic movie … I realized I don't want to compete with Robert Redford and that great work of art they did. So I had to let it go and go on and do a number of other novels.

– Jack AndersonRate it:

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