The novel is the highest example of subtle interrelatedness that man has discovered. — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
The novel is the highest form of human expression so far attained. Why? Because it is so incapable of the absolute. — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Primarily I am a passionately religious man, and my novels must be written from the depth of my religious experience. — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Any novel of importance has a purpose. If only the "purpose" be large enough, and not at outs with the passional inspiration. — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
If you try to nail anything down, in the novel, either it kills the novel, or the novel gets up and walks… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
In every great novel, who is the hero all the time? Not any of the characters, but some unnamed and nameless flame… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
The novel is the one bright book of life. Books are not life. They are only tremulations on the ether. But the… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
If a novel reveals true and vivid relationships, it is a moral work, no matter what the relationships consist in. If the… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Don't talk to me any more about poetry for months -- unless it is other men's work. I really love verse, even… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
The novel is a perfect medium for revealing to us the changing rainbow of our living relationships. The novel can help us… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
For even satire is a form of sympathy. It is the way our sympathy flows and recoils that really determines our lives.… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
After all, the world is not a stage-not to me: nor a theatre: nor a show-house of any sort. And art, especially… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Not I, not I, but the wind that blows through me! A fine wind is blowing the new direction of Time. — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
and Venus among the fishes skips and is a she-dolphin she is the gay, delighted porpoise sporting with love and the sea she is… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
If I had my way, I would build a lethal chamber as big as the Crystal Palace, with a military band playing softly, and… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Now it is autumn and the falling fruit and the long journey towards oblivion. The apples falling like great drops of dew to bruise… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
We have to hate our immediate predecessors to get free of their authority. — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Reach me a gentian, give me a torch! Let me guide myself with the blue, forked torch of a flower down the darker and… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
The war is dreadful. It is the business of the artist to follow it home to the heart of the individual fighters - not… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
The nearer a conception comes towards finality, the nearer does the dynamic relation, out of which this concept has arisen, draw to a close.… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically. — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
If only we could live two lives: the first in which to make one's mistakes, and the second in which to profit by them. — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
They say geniuses mostly have great mothers. They mostly have sad fates. — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
