“It may happen in the next hundred years that the English novelists of the present day will come to be valued as we now value the artists and craftsmen of the late eighteenth century.” YearsMayHappensArtistValuesNextCenturyLateHundredNovelistsPresent DayCraftsman Book:The world of Evelyn Waugh Source: The world of Evelyn Waugh
“Well, people have been wondering what's going to happen to the novel for two hundred years; its death has been announced many times. You know, I think the novel keeps redefining the world we live in. What you should look for in a novel is a window nobody else is looking out of, that nobody else can look through. What you look for is a voice. You pick up a novel by someone such as Faulkner or Hemingway and you just read three pages and you know who wrote it. And that's what one should demand of a novelist.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWorldShouldYearsWellsLooksHas BeensTwoHappensThreeVoiceWonderNovelDemandPagesPicksHundredWindowNovelistsRedefining Author:Mordecai Richler
“I am a born novelist, which does not happen all that often. There are people who try to write for a certain time, then they become Ministers of Culture under de Gaulle, and they begin living their own fictions.” PeopleWritingTryingDoeHappensCertainCultureBornFictionMinistersNovelists Author:Gore Vidal