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Novelist Quotes by Milan Kundera
- The novelist teaches the reader to comprehend the world as a question,
- For a novelist, a given historic situation is an anthropologic laboratory in which he explores his basic question: What is human existence?
- The novelist teaches the reader to comprehend the world as a question. There is wisdom and tolerance in that attitude. In a world built on…
- The stupidity of people comes from having an answer for everything. The wisdom of the novel comes from having a question for everything....The novelist teaches…
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- No poet or novelist wishes he were the only one who ever lived, but most of them wish they were the only… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Dostoevsky is such a bad writer it is hard to take him seriously as a novelist, though he is a wonderful philosopher. — John Banville
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- And when I'd be reporting in Israel, Palestinians would say, the Jews they're not like us, and the Jews would say the… — Geraldine Brooks
- Not until my middle thirties did I consider myself a novelist. — Rita Mae Brown
- A novelist should not be too intelligent either, although... he may be permitted to be an intellectual. — Anthony Burgess
- I am not an academic who happens to have written a novel. I am a novelist who happens to be quite good… — A. S. Byatt
- I hated being a novelist when I was 20 - I had nothing to write about. — A. S. Byatt