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The novel doesn't come into existence until certain methods of reproducing fiction come along.

— Leslie Fiedler

I really feel the novel has certain conveniences about it and has something so fundamental about it you could almost say that as long…

— William Golding

I do think that in the near future, if it hasn't happened already, people will be able to use technology to design their own…

— Don DeLillo

I can't believe there will ever be a time when the book is truly obsolete. It is the perfect technology and feeds the soul.

— Katherine Paterson

I think what will happen is that fiction will become more like poetry. As in, the only people who read it will write it.

— Gary Shteyngart

But I think, and hope, that the novels can be understood and enjoyed as science fiction, on their own terms.

— Dan Simmons

I think the one thing that's changed over time is that I've come to realise, as a fiction writer, the fact that I don't…

— Jennifer Egan

The great American novel has not only already been written, it has already been rejected.

— W. Somerset Maugham

The problem with the term "The New Fiction" is that the fiction will inevitably be old. The same could have been said about the…

— Lee Klein

My experience is that an original and compelling idea for a novel is a rare thing.

— James Thayer

... the main concern of the fiction writer is with mystery as it is incarnated in human life.

— Flannery O'Connor

“Time, yes … We waste it or save it or use it—one would almost think we mastered it instead of the other way around.…

— Ward Moore