“Or, my scrofulous French novel / On grey paper with blunt type! / Simply glance at it, you grovel / Hand and foot in Belial's gripe.”
Robert Browning
“They were simply building blocks. It's as if someone built a novel house and then claimed invention of hammers and doors and nails.”
Daniel Furniss
“The novel can be read simply as a story which you can skip if you want. It can be read as a story you will get more out of if you don't skip.”
Malcolm Lowry
“All I want is my own way in everything”
“San Francisco itself is art, above all literary art. Every block is a short story, every hill a novel. Every home a poem, every dweller within immortal. That is the whole truth.”
William Saroyan
“Conversation should be pleasant without scurrility, witty without affectation, free without indecency, learned without conceitedness, novel without falsehood”
William Shakespeare
“One should be able to return to the first sentence of a novel and find the resonances of the entire work.”
Gloria Naylor
