“It's one of the classic works of this period. The novel itself stands up on its own, and as a result of that, you're going to have a great deal of material as an offspring.”
Danny Glover
“One should be able to return to the first sentence of a novel and find the resonances of the entire work.”
Gloria Naylor
“A novel is balanced between a few true impressions and the multitude of false ones that make up most of what we call life.”
Saul Bellow
“Novels so often provide an anodyne and not an antidote, glide one into torpid slumbers instead of rousing one with a burning brand.”
Virginia Woolf
“Small pictures since the Renaissance are like novels; large pictures are like dramas in which one participates in a direct way.”
Mark Rothko
“The best project is one that asks a novel question.”
Walter Gilbert
“In 2003, we showed that a new medication that works by a novel system was effective in the moderate to severe stages of Alzheimer's disease.”
Dr. Barry Reisberg
