"The novel form is about the protagonist's struggle……" — Elif Batuman
"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."
More Arbitrary Quotes
- People who don't like my work say that the connections seem too arbitrary. But that's how life is. — Paul Auster
- Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken. — Abigail Adams
- Nip the shoots of arbitrary power in the bud, is the only maxim which can ever preserve the liberties of… — John Quincy Adams
- Standards of beauty are arbitrary. Body shame exists only to the extent that our physiques don't match our own beliefs… — Martha Beck
- Freedom is the emancipation from the arbitrary rule of other men. — Mortimer Adler
- The birth of science rang the death-knell of an arbitrary and constantly interposing Supreme Power. — Annie Besant
- I try to very hard to avoid a situation where I would be eating cat or dog; I've managed to… — Anthony Bourdain
- Be just and if you can't be just, be arbitrary. — William S. Burroughs
- Fashion choices are never arbitrary. Even if you say you don't care, that's a decision. There's something you're trying to… — Felicity Jones
- Western society has accepted as unquestionable a technological imperative that is quite as arbitrary as the most primitive taboo: not… — Lewis Mumford
- We would have every arbitrary barrier thrown down. We would have every path laid open to women as freely as… — Margaret Fuller
- So the time line of when we consider a fetus 'human' is arbitrary after conception. — Ron Paul