Quotes About Novel

Curtius cierra así su comparación: «Balzac siente un ardiente interés por la vida y nos contagia su fuego; Flaubert, su náusea». Así es, y ésa es precisamente la razón por la que Flaubert es el primer novelista moderno.

porque la novela era no solamente una manera de materializar una vocación, sino también una forma de contribuir a la lucha social, a la lucha del bien contra el mal desde el punto de vista ético.

Vale la pena leer con cuidado esta cita juvenil; contiene tres elementos precoces de su teoría de la novela: (1) que el escritor se sirve sin escrúpulos de toda la realidad; (2) la ambición totalizadora y (3) la idea de que la novela debe mostrar, no juzgar: «Il

Robbe-Grillet dice: «No, la novela no tiene que educar políticamente a nadie; la novela es fundamentalmente un arte».

Satisfaction involves an active pursuit- it is the emotional reward we get after adapting to a new situation or solving a novel problem.

The pace and urgency of war have always accelerated the development of technology and encouraged novel uses of devices that already exist.

Nemám rád normální romány. V normálních románech lidi Ã…â"¢íkají vÄ›ci jako: "Jsem protkána železem, stÃ…â"¢íbrem a žilkami usazenin. Nedokážu se sevÃ…â"¢ít v tvrdou pÄ›st, již zatínají ti, kteÃ…â"¢í jsou nezávislí." Co to znamená? Nevím. Neví to ani táta. Ani Siobhan, ani pan Jeavons. Ptal jsem se jich.

Reading any novel, good or mediocre, is a workshop for a writer.

There is, in fact, not much point in writing a novel unless you can show the possibility of moral transformation, or an increase in wisdom, operating in your chief character or characters. Even trashy bestsellers show people changing. When a fictional work fails to show change, when it merely indicates that human character is set, stony, unregenerable, then you are out of field of the novel and into that of the fable or the allegory. - from the introduction of the 1986 Norton edition

It seems priggish or pollyannaish to deny that my intention in writing the work was to titillate the nastier propensities of my readers. My own healthy inheritance of original sin comes out in the book and I enjoyed raping and ripping by proxy. It is the novelist's innate cowardice that makes him depute to imaginary personalities the sins that he is too cautious to commit for himself.

The 21st chapter gives the novel the quality of genuine fiction, an art founded on the principle that human beings change. ----- A Clockwork Orange Resucked intro to first full American version 1986

There is, in fact, not much point in writing a novel unless you can show the possibility of moral transformation, or an increase in wisdom, operating in your chief character or characters.

Even trashy bestsellers show people changing. When a fictional work fails to show change, when it merely indicates that human character is set, stony, unregenerable, then you are out of the field of the novel and into that of the fable or the allegory.

When a fictional work fails to show change, when it merely indicates that human character is set, stony, unregenerable, then you are out of the field of the novel and into that of the fable or the allegory.

People think because a novel's invented, it isn't true. Exactly the reverse is the case. Because a novel's invented, it is true. Biography and memoirs can never be wholly true, since they can't include every conceivable circumstance of what happened. The novel can do that. The novelist himself lays it down. His decision is binding. The biographer, even at his highest and best, can be only tentative, empirical.

Oh, good," said Hugh, but without enthusiasm. "By the way, here is that American novel I told you about. Let me know what you think of it." "Anything special?" "I don't feel happy about the chapter where Irving and Wayne listen to the whip-poor-will." "I'll study it." I took Lot's Hometown and went back to my room to ring up Hudson.

I knew myself incapable of writing a line of a novel – by then I had written three or four – however long released from duty. Whatever inner processes are required for writing novels, so far as I myself was concerned, war now utterly inhibited. That was one of the many disagreeable aspects of war. It was not only physically inescapable, but morally inescapable too.

What you say, Nick, strengthens my contention that only a novel can imply certain truths impossible to state by exact definition. Biography and autobiography are forced to attempt exact definition. In doing so truth goes astray. The novelist is more serious—if that is the word.

The persons whom you cannot care for in a novel, because they are so bad, are the very same that you so dearly love in your life, because they are so good.

I have from the first felt sure that the writer, when he sits down to commence his novel, should do so, not because he has to tell a story, but because he has a story to tell. The novelist's first novel will generally have sprung from the right cause.

No novel is anything, for the purposes either of comedy or tragedy, unless the reader can sympathise with the characters whose names he finds upon the pages. Let an author so tell his tale as to touch his reader's heart and draw his tears, and he has, so far, done his work well. Truth let there be, --truth of description, truth of character, human truth as to men and women. If there be such truth, I do not know that a novel can be too sensational.

A sermon is not to tell you what you are, but what you ought to be, and a novel should tell you not what you are to get, but what you'd like to get.

I daresay I am an idiot," said Miss Macnulty, resuming her novel.

I won't say that reading a novel on a Sunday is a sin," he said; "but we must at any rate admit that it is a matter on which men disagree, that many of the best of men are against such occupation on Sunday, and that to abstain is to be on the safe side." So the novels were put away, and Sunday afternoon with the long evening became rather a stumbling-block to Lady Laura.