Baroque Quote by Marisa Silver

I thought that strange syntax was the language of story books. I didn't realize those were poor translations... English from Edwardian times.

— Sandra Cisneros

The novel is a prose narrative of some length that has something wrong with it.

— Randall Jarrell

Language changes the flavour of the people, it changes the way you tell a story.

— Shriya Saran

The language of prose is very different than the language of cinema, so the movie has to successfully translate what was in the book.

— Yann Martel

“The conventional use of words and of narrative structure is deliberately subverted in decadent fiction; language deviates from the established norms in an attempt…

— Asti Hustvedt

I think the novel is not so much a literary genre, but a literary space, like a sea that is filled by many rivers.…

— Jose Saramago

What works in a story is very different than what works in cinema. For example, dialogue in books: If you translate it too faithfully,…

— Yann Martel

Like the weaver, the writer works on the wrong side of his material. He has only to do with the language, and it is…

— Maurice Merleau-Ponty

The things that the novel does not say are necessarily more numerous than those it does say and only a special halo around what…

— Italo Calvino

Folk tales are my favourite form of story telling. They not only just adjust the reader according to the world it is introducing the…

— Shweta Basu Prasad

I've always felt that the traditional novel doesn't give you enough information about the narrator, and I think it's important to know the point…

— W. G. Sebald

If any art form can accommodate contemporary culture, it's the novel. It's so malleable - it can incorporate essays, poetry, film. Maybe the challenge…

— Don DeLillo