Books Quote by Rosamond Lehmann

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

The novel is always pop art, and the novel is always dying. That's the only way it stays alive. It does really die. I've…

— Leslie Fiedler

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

— Storm Jameson

I usually have a sense of where my characters are personally and ways in which they might transform throughout the novel. But I never…

— Lisa Lutz

The art of the novel, however, has fallen into such a state of stagnation - a lassitude acknowledged and discussed by the whole of…

— Alain Robbe-Grillet

A novel which survives, which withstands and outlives time, does do something more than merely survive. It does not stand still. It accumulates round…

— Elizabeth Bowen

By its very nature, the novel indicates that we are becoming. There is no final solution. There is no last word.

— Carlos Fuentes

The writing of a novel is taking life as it already exists, not to report it but to make an object, toward the end…

— Eudora Welty

“Literature interprets the world, but it's also shaped by that world, and we're living through one of the greatest economic and technological transformations since--well,…

— Lev Grossman

The novel moves like all the arts. It's transforming itself all the time.

— Nathalie Sarraute

This book is so interesting. I always wonder what's going to happen next.

— Neal Shusterman

The death-change comes. Death is another life. We bow our heads At going out, we think, and enter straight Another golden chamber of the…

— Philip James Bailey