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Novel Quotes by Leslie Fiedler
- Cooper wrote a novel which is absolutely indistinguishable from Austen, completely from a female point of view, completely English, no sense that he was an…
- The novel is always pop art, and the novel is always dying. That's the only way it stays alive. It does really die. I've been…
- The novel doesn't come into existence until certain methods of reproducing fiction come along.
- I think Henry Miller has had huge influence not because he wrote about sex, but because the memoir or the nonfiction novel has become such…
- Henry Miller wrote novels, but he calls his protagonist Henry, often Henry Miller, and his books are in this gray area between memoir and novel.
- Jane Austen is at the end of the line that begins with Samuel Richardson, which takes wonder and magic out of the novel, treats not…
- The novel is the first art form that is an honest-to-god commodity. That's what makes it different from both high art and folk art.
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- The object is very clear in the fight against racism; you have reasons why you're opposed to it. But when you're writing… — Margaret Atwood
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- I keep thinking I'll enjoy suspense novels, and sometimes I do. I've read about 20 Dick Francis novels. — Nicholson Baker