Novel Form Quotes
- A novelist can shift view-point if it comes off. ... Indeed, this power to expand and contract perception (of which the shifting view-point is a… — E. M. Forster
- The novel form is about the protagonist's struggle to transform his arbitrary, fragmented, given experience into a narrative as meaningful as his favorite books. — Elif Batuman
- The traditional novel form continues to enlarge our experience in those very areas where the wide-angle lens and the Cinema screen tend to narrow it. — Daniel J. Boorstin
- I'm not nearly smart enough or imaginative enough to tackle the novel form. Never happen. — Mary Karr
- This progressive effacement of human relationships is not without certain problems for the novel. How, in point of fact, would one handle the narration of… — Michel Houellebecq
- I think the novel form chose me. I was a writer before I became a criminal... my first instinct was to write. — Gregory David Roberts