T Quotes
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“The novel does not seek to establish a privileged language but it insists upon the freedom to portray and analyze the struggle between the different contestants for such privileges.”
Source: Is nothing sacred?
“The novel does not simply recount experience, it adds to experience.”
“The novel doesn't come into existence until certain methods of reproducing fiction come along.”
“The novel form is about the protagonist's struggle to transform his arbitrary, fragmented, given experience into a narrative as meaningful as his favorite books.”
Source: The Possessed: Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read Them
“The novel has always been the form that incorporates other forms. For me, it has always been the ultimate medium.”
“The novel I am constantly writing is always the same one, and it might be described as a variously sliced-up or torn-apart book of myself.”
Source: The Walk
“The novel, I believe, allows, encourages ways to experience the public – in time, with affect, in a communal space, with other people (characters), and in language that insists on individual participation. It also tries to illuminate and recover the relationship between literature and public life.”
Source: The Source of Self-Regard: Selected Essays, Speeches, and Meditations
“The novel is a big space, and a lot can happen. Just think about the parts of your life. How do we account for our own contradictions? The only way to understand them is to let them exist, as truths that indicate something about character. People are built of elements that don't fit together - and the conflict of that is their essential drive.”
“The novel is a formidable mass, and it is so amorphous - no mountain in it to climb, no Parnassus or Helicon, not even a Pisgah. It is most distinctly one of the moister areas of literature - irrigated by a hundred rills and occasionally degenerating into a swamp. I do not wonder that the poets despise it, though they sometimes find themselves in it by accident. And I am not surprised at the annoyance of the historians when by accident it finds itself among them.”
“The novel is a game or joke shared between author and reader.”
“The novel is a highly corrupt medium, after all - in the end the vast majority of them simply aren't that great, and are destined to be forgotten.”
“The novel is a meditation on existence as seen through the medium of imaginary characters.”
“The novel is a penetrating study of morals and ethics.”
“The novel is a perfect medium for revealing to us the changing rainbow of our living relationships. The novel can help us to live,as nothing else can: no didactic Scripture, anyhow. If the novelist keeps his thumb out of the pan.”
Source: Selected Poems of D.h. Lawrence
“The novel is a prose narrative of some length that has something wrong with it.”
“The novel is a territory where one does not make assertions; it is a territory of play and of hypotheses.”
“The novel is about five students of classics who are studying with a classics professor, and they take the ideas of the things that they're learning from him a bit too seriously, with terrible consequences.”
“The novel is about, for me, sustained and organized looking. I do think that people have a hunger for a sustained engagement, that concentration that the book can offer.”
“The novel is alive and thriving through various strategies of renovation. The merging of fiction and reality, of memoir and narrative, is one great current source of strength. The reimagining of the historical novel is a second. And the third is the admission of new voices previously unheard or slienced.”
Source: The Unpunished Vice: A Life of Reading
“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 been thinking about that a lot.”
“The novel is apparently autobiographical and is being publicised as such but Doust has done with his material what so many autobiographical novelists fail to do: he has turned it into a shapely story, with no extraneous material or diversions and with an absolutely consistent and convincing narrative voice.’ — Sydney Morning Herald”
Source: Boy on a Wire
“The novel is born not of the theoretical spirit but of the spirit of humor.”
Source: The Art of the Novel
“The novel is born of disillusionment; the poem, of despair.”
“The novel is dead. Long live the antinovel, built from scraps.”
Source: Reality Hunger
“The novel is final form; it's the ultimate individual final form. Television and motion pictures never get there. You'd be fabulous to think that something you write is even going to be filmed. I give it the best shot of which I'm capable. But it's more a payday for me. And if I didn't have alimony and the full-time assistant.”
“the novel is inherently a political instrument, regardless of its subject. It invites you - more than invites you, induces you - to live inside another person's skin. It creates empathy. And that's the antidote to bigotry. The novel doesn't just tell you about another life, which is what a newspaper would do. It makes you live another life, inhabit another perspective. And that's very important.”
“The novel is more of a whisper, whereas the stage is a shout.”
“The novel is never really in the first draft. The novel really happens in the revisions.”
“The novel is not so much a literary genre, but a literary space, like a sea that is filled by many rivers.”
“The novel is not the author's confession; it is an investigation of human life in the trap the world has become”
“The novel is perhaps the highest art form because it so closely resembles life: it is about human relationships. It's technique, page by page, resembles our technique of living day by day-a way of relating.”
“The novel is rescued life.”
Source: Herself: An Autobiographical Work
“The novel is resilient, and so are novelists.”
“The novel is the affliction for which only the novel is the cure.”
Source: The Faith of a Writer: Life, Craft, Art
“The novel is... the anti-form proper to modernity itself (which is to say, of capitalism and its cultural and epistemological categories, its daily life). This means... that the novel is also a vehicle of creative destruction. Its function, in some properly capitalist ‘cultural revolution’, is the perpetual undoing of traditional narrative paradigms and their replacement, not by new paradigms, but by something radically different. To use Deleuzian language for a moment, modernity, capitalist modernity, is the moment of passage from codes to axioms, from meaningful sequences, or indeed, if you prefer, from meaning itself, to operational categories, to functions and rules; or, in yet another language, this time more historical and philosophical, it is the transition from metaphysics to epistemologies and pragmatisms, we might even say from content to form.”
“The novel is the dream release, the suspension of reality that history needs to escape its own brutal confinements.”
“The novel is the highest example of subtle interrelatedness that man has discovered.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)
“The novel is the highest form of human expression so far attained. Why? Because it is so incapable of the absolute.”
Source: Study of Thomas Hardy and Other Essays
“The novel is the one bright book of life. Books are not life. They are only tremulations on the ether. But the novel as a tremulation can make the whole man alive tremble.”
Source: Study of Thomas Hardy and Other Essays
“The novel is the privileged vehicle of two ways of being: narrative and freedom: to be new (novel) in a speech open to all, and to be free in a speech that never concludes.”
Source: Myself with Others: Selected Essays
“The novel is very much alive, indeed. In Toronto at the Sixth Annual International Festival of Authors (October 1985) I listened to novelists by the dozen.”
“The novel is whatever novelists are doing at a given time. If we‘re not doing the big social novel fifteen years from now, it‘ll probably mean our sensibilities have changed in ways that make such work less compelling to us — we won‘t stop because the market dried up. The writer leads, he doesn‘t follow. The dynamic lives in the writer‘s mind, not in the size of the audience. And if the social novel lives, but only barely, surviving in the cracks and ruts of the culture, maybe it will be taken more seriously, as an endangered spectacle. A reduced context but a more intense one [...]
PS [...] If serious reading dwindles to near nothingness, it will probably mean that the thing we‘re talking about when we use the word ‘identity‘ has reached an end.
– Don Delillo, in a letter to Jonathan Franzen”
“The novel leads you places that you never could have gotten to otherwise.”
“The novel may be dead as a commercial form. When art forms things die as commercial forms, something happens to the practice of those arts that isn't very pleasant. It used to be that a poet like Tennyson could keep his house and his coach-and-four and his staff of six servants on the income from poetry. That doesn't happen anymore.”
“The novel may stimulate you to think. It may satisfy your aesthetic sense. It may arouse your moral emotions. But if it does not entertain you it is a bad novel.”
“The novel moves like all the arts. It's transforming itself all the time.”
“The novel offers no startling revelations about how to cope with grief or sadness or aging. It offers what a novel can, a rich, full experience of an individual mind. [re: Larry McMurtry, Duane's Depressed]”
Source: Larry McMurtry: A Life
“The novel [Pamela] is also a very powerful early expression of the modern self, one who sees her soul as equal in human worth and dignity to anyone, regardless of social class or power--and this, too, is part of evangelicalism.”
Source: The Evangelical Imagination: How Stories, Images, and Metaphors Created a Culture in Crisis
“The novel remains a very special form for me.”
“The novel remains for me one of the few forms...where we can describe, step by step, minute by minute, our not altogether unpleasant struggle to put ourselves into a viable and devout relationship to our beloved and mistaken world.”