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Novels Quotes by Milan Kundera
- The characters in my novels are my own unrealized possibilities. That is why I am equally fond of them all and equally horrified by them.…
- The present era grabs everything that was ever written in order to transform it into films, TV programs; or cartoons. What is essential in a…
- All great novels, all true novels, are bisexual.
- The light that radiates from the great novels time can never dim, for human existence is perpetually being forgotten by man and thus the novelists'…
- All novels . . . are concerned with the enigma of the self. As soon as you create an imaginary being, a character, you are…
- The characters in my novels are my own unrealised possibilities. That is why I am equally fond of them all and equally horrified by them.…
- Great novels are always a little more intelligent than their authors.
- In Tereza’s eyes, books were the emblems of a secret brotherhood. For she had but a single weapon against the world of crudity surrounding her:…
- This is the image from which he was born...... Characters are not born, like people, of woman; they are born of a situation, a sentence,…
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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
- At Oxford University, I studied languages so I could read the great novels as they were originally written. I took what in… — Kate Beckinsale
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