People have been saying the novel is dead for as far back…

The novel will never die, but it will keep changing and evolving and taking different shapes.

— Rosamond Lehmann

Every story we remember is a novel. Novels make things more universal.

— Dave Eggers

'Inherent Vice' was a novel that already existed, and in 'Steve Jobs,' I was playing a real person; in those situations, you do feel…

— Katherine Waterston

“You can begin a story in the middle and create confusion by striking out boldly, backward and forward. You can be modern, put aside…

— Gunter Grass

I wasted a lot of years working on my writing and very grandly saying, 'And now... My Novel!,' which would soon be reduced to…

— George Saunders

If life were a novel, then dead would mark the end of the first chapter.

— Kelly Nelson

“I’ve been keeping in stuff worse than that for more than twenty years.” - what the serial killer said to me. Based the antagonist…

— Kristi Belcamino

The novel may be dead as a commercial form. When art forms things die as commercial forms, something happens to the practice of those…

— William Monahan

Reading groups, readings, breakdowns of book sales all tell the same story: when women stop reading, the novel will be dead.

— Ian Mcewan

And he absolutely had to find her at once to tell her that he adored her, but the large audience before him separated him…

— Vladimir Nabokov

The novelist teaches the reader to comprehend the world as a question. There is wisdom and tolerance in that attitude. In a world built…

— Milan Kundera

If I were a writer, how I would enjoy being told the novel is dead. How liberating to work in the margins, outside a…

— Don DeLillo

“If the novel is dead, I'm a necrophiliac.”

— Tiffany Madison

The novel is dead. Long live the antinovel, built from scraps.

— David Shields

I have often heard that the novel is dead. But I see novels produced, I don't know how many a week, in France. I…

— Nathalie Sarraute