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“The novel has accompanied man uninterruptedly and faithfully since the beginning of the Modern Era. It was then that the "passion to know," which…

— Milan Kundera

“Love, truth, beauty, wisdom, and consolation against death. - Anatole Broyard in his dislike of "Lending Books" from editor Rabinowitz's collection "A Passion for…

— Rabinowitz Anatole Broyard

“Writing a novel is like making soup. The base is a broth we make up wholesale—for instance, I have one child, not five, and…

— Laurie Frankel

Broch is an inspiration to us, not only because of what he accomplished, but also because of all that he aimed at and could…

— Milan Kundera

Modernism is the protein of our cultural imagination.

— Robert Hughes

I would argue, for perspective's sake, that the arc of a really literary work is precisely that it both intensely reflects, and simultaneously transcends…

— Daniel Mendelsohn

“Vonnegut is one of America's basic artists, a true and worthy heir to the grand tradition of Thoreau, Whitman, Twain, Dreiser, Traven, Tom Wolfe…

— Edward Abbey

Engaging and well paced, the book fills in the reality behind Vonnegut's work

— Charles J. Shields

“When you choose a narrator emotionally involved in a drama, you might choose Brontë’s method; when you want distance, choose Grass’s cooler, more matter-of-fact…

— Anonymous

I don't believe the writer should know too much where he's going. If he does, he runs into old man blueprint—old man propaganda.

— James Thurber

With 'Nostromo', Joseph Conrad said that he had wanted to write a novel about the degradation of an idea. That's what we wanted to…

— David Milch

“As always with the greatest works, the novel is so many-sided that over time it mirrors back the shifting concerns of those who read…

— Carl F. Hovde