The great modern novel of the comic-pathetic illusion of freedom is Confessions of Zeno . — Italo Svevo Copy Share Image
Books of quick interest, that hurry on for incidents are for the eye to glide over only. It will not do to… — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
In modern novels I try to not let myself get away and to be here, and that's why I write about my… — Karl Ove Knausgard Copy Share Image
At the emergence of the modern novel with Rabelais and Cervantes, all kinds of things were possible in a long-form prose work.… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
For being able to use language was a critical skill that could carry one far. One could use it professionally, as a… — Elizabeth George Copy Share Image
The first modern novel was already a product, even an expression, of negative criticism: 'Don Quixote' contains a quite explicit critique of… — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
“It would not be a good place for the heroine of a modern novel to stay at. The heroine of a modern… — Jerome K. Jerome Copy Share Image
Modern novels have become part of the do-it-yourself business, and they come in a very small number of standard kits. (...) In… — David Pryce-Jones Copy Share Image
“It would have been impossible for me to have told anyone what I derived from these novels, for it was nothing less… — Richard Wright Copy Share Image
I read a lot of detective stories because they always deliver. They give you a beginning, a middle, and an end -… — Robert Cormier Copy Share Image
Folk-lore means that the soul is sane, but that the universe is wild and full of marvels. Realism means that the world… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Characters should be interchangeable as between one book and another. The entire corpus of existing literature should be regarded as a limbo… — Flann O'Brien Copy Share Image
