Analysis Quote by Jane Smiley

Im all about entertaining and keeping a reader on the edge of their seat, so to me, the social issues have to be meaningful…

— Andrew Gross

I'm all about entertaining and keeping a reader on the edge of their seat, so to me, the social issues have to be meaningful…

— Andrew Gross

for me the novel is a social vehicle, it reflects society.

— Margaret Atwood

“The writer should have a comprehensive outlook. He should aim at a holistic understanding of the prevailing social, political and economic conditions. He should…

— Jayakanthan

Books can make a difference in dispelling prejudice and building community: not with role models and recipes, not with noble messages about the human…

— Hazel Rochman

I'm not a sociologist, and the novel has often concerned itself with sociology. It's one of the generating forces that's made fiction interesting to…

— Jonathan Lethem

The novel is a big space, and a lot can happen. Just think about the parts of your life. How do we account for…

— Rachel Kushner

The novel has become a function of the fragmented society, the fragmented consciousness. Human beings are so divided, are becoming more and more divided,…

— Doris Lessing

As a novelist, you write about social mores, but not everything can be explained.

— Elif Batuman

As in political so in literary action a man wins friends for himself mostly by the passion of his prejudices and the consistent narrowness…

— Joseph Conrad

“The problem lies not with the characters within the novel, but with the reader itself.”

— Vladimir Nabokov

A good writer refuses to be socialized. He insists on his own version of things, his own consciousness. And by doing so he draws…

— Bill Barich