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“I grew up reading the classic novels of Cold War espionage, and I studied Russian history and Soviet foreign policy.”

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Author:Daniel Silva

“Mervyn Peake is a finer poet than Edgar Allan Poe, and he is therefore able to maintain his world of fantasy brilliantly through three novels. It (Gormenghast trilogy) is a very, very great work ... a classic of our age.”

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Book:The Gormenghast Novels

Source: The Gormenghast Novels

“The Anglo-American tradition is much more linear than the European tradition. If you think about writers like Borges, Calvino, Perec or Marquez, they're not bound in the same sort of way. They don't come out of the classic 19th-century novel, which is where all the problems start. 19th-century novels are fabulous and we should all read them, but we shouldn't write them.”

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Author:Jeanette Winterson

“I hope for so much from every book I read. And time and again, I find myself disappointed. I look across my bookshelves and see hundreds of titles which in my memory seem merely mediocre or second-rate. Only occasionally does a novel appear for which I feel a lasting passion, a book that I think could in time become a classic.”

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Author:John Boyne

“Of comic novels that have quaffed the elixir of 'classic': Zuleika Dobson by Max Beerbohm.”

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Author:Cynthia Ozick

“The detective novel is the art-for-art's-sake of our yawning Philistinism, the classic example of a specialized form of art removed from contact with the life it pretends to build on.”

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Author:V. S. Pritchett

“Gritty and witty, The Chicago Way is done the classic Raymond Chandler Way. Harvey's taut plot, snappy prose, and memorable characters make this debut novel a real winner.”

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Author:Kathy Reichs

“With iron and blood, it seems, and from the rich depths of the earth, John Griswold has fashioned a classic American novel, its dignified intonations of our young nation's sweat and tears evocative of the indelible storytelling of Dos Passos, Frank Norris, and Upton Sinclair.”

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Author:Bob Shacochis

“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”

Source: Jane Austen: 8 Books in 1

“If you're doing a classic play, where if you do a Chekhov, you do the words as written. You can't do that with a novel; you have to do your version of the words as written.”

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Author:Sam Mendes