Accommodate Quote by Don DeLillo

“The novel is a hybrid genre and a large part of its charm arises from the alluvial nature of its materials. There is nothing…

— Enrique Vila-Matas

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

A novel is not just a work of art: It is somehow a work of life as well.

— George P Elliott

I think the novel is not so much a literary genre, but a literary space, like a sea that is filled by many rivers.…

— Jose Saramago

“The sense of modernism is often seen in the determination of each of the arts to come as close as possible to its own…

— Milan Kundera

The novel moves like all the arts. It's transforming itself all the time.

— Nathalie Sarraute

Fiction is art and art is the triumph over chaos… to celebrate a world that lies spread out around us like a bewildering and…

— John Cheever

This Is Not a Novel memorializes the treasures and detritus of one man's singularly cultured mind. (...) If you don't know Writer's work at…

— Michael Dirda

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.

— Leslie Fiedler

“Contemporary literature, in each and every epoch, is the worst enemy of culture. A reader’s limited time is wasted in reading a thousand books…

— Nicolás Gómez Dávila

“Art, though, is never the voice of a country; it is an even more precious thing, the voice of the individual, doing its best…

— Eudora Welty