Books Quote by Jay McInerney

I don't despise 'Don Quixote,' but it is a book I don't... get. I'll have to come back it. Maybe there'll be a gateway…

— Helen Oyeyemi

People have been saying the novel is dead for as far back as I can remember. The novel will never die, but it will…

— Rosamond Lehmann

A writer's definitive death is when no one reads his books anymore. That's the final death.

— Jose Saramago

I think there are readers out there and I don't think the book is dead. And more importantly I don't think readers have to…

— Jodi Picoult

The first modern novel was already a product, even an expression, of negative criticism: 'Don Quixote' contains a quite explicit critique of the chivalric…

— Elif Batuman

The novel is always pop art, and the novel is always dying. That's the only way it stays alive. It does really die. I've…

— Leslie Fiedler

I've never been one of those people, who subscribe to this notion that the book is dead.

— George Brandis

“A novel does not assert anything, a novel poses questions... The stupidity of people comes from having an answer for everything. When Don Quixote…

— Milan Kundera

Well, people have been wondering what's going to happen to the novel for two hundred years; its death has been announced many times. You…

— Mordecai Richler

Although every novel is derived directly from another novel, there is really only one novel, the Quixote.

— David Berlinski

Death was a fiction till love came to reality

— Shubham Joshi

Without curiosity a writer is dead.

— Lynne Tillman