Absolutes Quote by Jonathan Lethem

Another reason I think the novel will survive is that the reader has to work in a novel. In a film, you are presented…

— John Fowles

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

We don't really know how technology will affect narrative. That's the question. See, people used to say that the novel is going to die,…

— Don DeLillo

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 novel survives because of its basic truthfulness, its having within it something general and universal, and a quality of imaginative perception which…

— Elizabeth Bowen

I imagine as long as people will continue to read novels, people will continue to write them, or vice versa; unless of course the…

— William Faulkner

Every story would be another story, and unrecognizable if it took up its characters and plot and happened somewhere else ... Fiction depends for…

— Eudora Welty

I just love the idea that people disappear into the story for a while. You grab a book, and you want to get back…

— Bernard Beckett

It's a risk, but I'm sort of ready to let go of thinking of movies as books that you can watch. The notion of,…

— Shane Carruth

Some writers get snooty about what happens when their books are adapted to film, but I don't feel that way.

— Katherine Dunn

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

If the novel is dying, I see no chance that dismembering it will revive it.

— Storm Jameson