Book Quote by Roger Ebert

It's a post-modern classic written way before there was any modernism to be post about.

— Steve Coogan

“@The darkest and most complex novel in (the Murdoch) series.”

— Maureen Jennings

Modernism: the books are as hard to understand as life itself.

— Mason Cooley

“Enormous novels by co-eds. Rain down on our defenceless heads. Till our teeth chatter.”

— W.H. Auden

“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

One more recent novelist to come along is Cormac McCarthy. Him, I like.

— Leslie Fiedler

“The novels which I approve are such as display human nature with grandeur”

— Jane Austen

One might say that the novel is the genre that most predisposes one to a profound insight into the tremendous life around us, instead…

— Mikhail Sholokhov

“Behind every novel is a greater story of how it came to be published.”

— T.L. Rese

“Modernism’s constant quest to find a single, all-encompassing solution to humanity’s problems was considered to be silly, naive and delusional by the Postmodernists.”

— Will Gompertz

“My most recent novel is written wholly in numbers.”

— Dan Holloway

“The novel has been the subject of several scholarly essays and has become a staple of college classes in contemporary fiction (and even the…

— David Markson