Bad man Quote by Christina Stead

The popular books are the novels, dealing with life under all possible conditions, and they are widely read not only because they are entertaining,…

— Jane Addams

For a Jewish Puritan of the middle class, the novel is serious, the novel is work, the novel is conscientious application why, the novel…

— Howard Nemerov

Middlemarch, the magnificent book which with all its imperfections is one of the few English novels for grown-up people.

— Virginia Woolf

“I tend to avoid fiction about dysfunctional urban middle-class people written in the present tense. This makes it hard to find a new novel,…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

“most common people oft he market-place much prefer light literature to improving books. The problem is, that so many romances contain slanderous anecdotes about…

— Cao Xueqin

“The novel has been the subject of several scholarly essays and has become a staple of college classes in contemporary fiction (and even the…

— David Markson

The same authorities who insist upon beginnings, middles, and ends, declare that Great Literature (by which they mean the stories they have been taught…

— Gene Wolfe

A novel according to my taste, does not come into the moderately good class unless it contains some person whom one can thoroughly love…

— Charles Darwin

One novel that I think is an overriding influence in my life is 'All the King's Men,' the most beautiful book written in the…

— Andrew Gross

Novels are sweets. All people with healthy literary appetites love them-almost all women; a vast number of clever, hardheaded men.

— William Makepeace Thackeray

The 1930s birthed two great agrarian novels: 'Gone with the Wind' from the viewpoint of the ruling class, 'The Grapes of Wrath' for the…

— Richard Corliss

I think overtly political novels - those that never transcend or contest their author's conscious intentions and prejudices - are problematic. This is not…

— Pankaj Mishra