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“The office of the leisure class in social evolution is to retard the movement and to conserve what is obsolescent. This proposition is by no means novel; it has long been one of the commonplaces of popular opinion.”

Mean Long Social Opinion Class Novel Movement Evolution Office Leisure Propositions Commonplace Retard Popular Opinion

Book:The Theory of the Leisure Class

Source: The Theory of the Leisure Class

“Today the crime novelist has one advantage denied to writers of 'straight' or 'literary' novels. Unlike them he can range over all levels of society, for crime can easily breach the barriers that exist in our stratified society. Because of these barriers the modern literary novel, unlike its 19th-century predecessors, is often confined to the horizontal, dealing only with one class. But crime runs through society from top to bottom, and so the crime novelist can present a fuller picture of the way we live now.”

Source: Life & Letters: The Spectator Columns

“At DePauw, I was teaching writing and fiction. The things I wanted to teach, more than anything else, were form and theory of the novel, of narrative. I liked those classes.”

Writing Wanted Form Fiction Class Teach Novel Teaching Theory Narrative Teaching Writing

Author:Nic Pizzolatto

“In the second grade, I would just get bored and a joke would pop into my head and I would have to say it. It was almost like I had some brilliant novel in my head that I had to get down, and I would interrupt class all the time and get in trouble.”

Class Novel Trouble Jokes Down And Pops Brilliant Bored Grades

Author:Anthony Jeselnik

“A psychologically engrossing novel about the homes we make-in our houses, in our neighborhoods, and in the hearts of our loved ones. Laken takes on that great unspoken American subject-class-and does so with frankness, acuity and surpassing feeling. DREAM HOUSE is a memorable debut novel from a fully mature talent.”

Heart Doe Feelings Home Dream House Class Novel Subjects Talent Memorable Neighborhood Mature Loved Ones Unspoken Debut Surpassing Frankness Dream House

Author:Peter Ho Davies

“All middle-class novels are about the trials of three, all upper-class novels about mass fornication, all revolutionary novels about a bad man turned good by a tractor.”

Men Three Class Novel Middle Mass Trials Revolutionary Middle Class Bad Man Upper Class Tractors

Book:The beauties and furies

Source: The beauties and furies

“At present, the novels which we owe to English ladies form no small part of the literary glory of our country. No class of works is more honorably distinguished for fine observation, by grace, by delicate wit, by pure moral feeling.”

Country Feelings Form Moral Class Novel Grace Fine Pure Glory Wit Our Country Observation Delicate Distinguished Small Parts

Author:Thomas B. Macaulay

“A certain class of novels may with propriety be called fables.”

May Certain Class Novel Fables Propriety

Author:Richard Whately

“Certain kinds of things that the novel used to do, which was, "Oh, I'm living out here in West Nowhere, Nebraska and I'm curious how the upper class in New York City lives, I guess I'll read a novel about it." We don't have to do that now. You just turn on the TV. Turn on Lifestyles Of The Rich And Famous. You can get that information anywhere. Novels don't have to do that anymore.”

Kind Used Certain Turns Cities Class Novel Rich Information New York Tvs West Lifestyle Curious New York City Turn-on City Life Upper Class Nebraska

Author:Jonathan Franzen

“People didn't know certain things about me, which... I was out of creative writing class in school, Syracuse University; had a B.A. in English and wanted to write the great American novel but I also loved rock and roll. I was in bar bands all through college, playing fraternities and have to know all the songs in the top 10. That kind of thing.”

“When I moved to Los Angeles, I wrote spec screenplays. I was really poor, and I thought I was just gonna do this for a while to make a little money so I could write novels. I thought movies were a second-class art form. I condescended to it - I didn't know enough to know it was really gonna be hard.”

Knows Writing Littles Art Hard Enough Form Poor Class Novel Moved Los Angeles Screenplays Little Money Specs

Author:Stephen Gaghan

“Learning is available at the library for free; under a tree with a dog-eared paperback; at a job with a boss who gives you responsibility and mentorship; while traveling; while leading a cause, movement, or charity; while writing a novel or composing a poem or crafting a song; while interning, apprenticing, or volunteering; while playing a sport or immersing yourself in a language; while starting a business; and now, while watching a TED talk or taking a Khan Academy class.”

“A novel according to my taste, does not come into the moderately good class unless it contains some person whom one can thoroughly love - and if a pretty woman, all the better.”

Ifs Persons Doe Class Novel Taste Pretty Woman

Book:Autobiography and Selected Letters

Source: Autobiography and Selected Letters

“In undergraduate classes, I often see writers who are still simply imitating. I mean, we all imitate - that's how we learn to speak or write in the first place - but they're writing a Dean Koontz novel or something.”

Writing Firsts Mean Stills Speak Class Novel Dean Imitating Undergraduate

Author:Leni Zumas

“When I get interested in a new topic I teach a class on it. There's a graduate seminar I teach in which the students and I try to expand the terminology we use to talk about poetry as well as expand our notion of what makes a poem - we read source texts on architecture, dance, photography, film and the graphic novel.”

Trying Wells Use Film Class Teach Novel Students Source Photography Notion Architecture Graduates Topics Graphic Graphic Novels Terminology Seminars

Author:Matthea Harvey

“I've never taken any classes or had formal training in writing novels. At its most basic, I learned how to structure a novel.”

Writing Class Novel Taken Training Structure Formal

Author:Dennis Green

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