“The novel remains for me one of the few forms where we can record man's complexity and the strength and decency of his longings. 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.” MenWorldFormStepsNovelStruggleRecordsMinutesRemainsLongingBelovedComplexityMistakenDecency Author:John Cheever
“The novel...creates a bemusing effect. The short story, on the other hand wakes the reader up. Not only that, it answers the primitive craving for art, the wit, paradox and beauty of shape, the longing to see a dramatic pattern and significance in our experience.” ArtStoriesHandsAnswersNovelEffectsReaderShapesLongingPatternsWitDramaticSignificanceParadoxShort StoryPrimitiveCraving Author:V. S. Pritchett
“The novel remains for me one of the few forms where we can record man's complexity and the strength and decency of his longings.” MenFormNovelRecordsRemainsLongingComplexityDecency Book:The Wapshot Chronicle Source: The Wapshot Chronicle
“... into the novel goes such taste as I have for rational behaviour and social portraiture. The short story, as I see it to be, allows for what is crazy about humanity: obstinacies, inordinate heroisms, "immortal longings.” StoriesHumanitySocialFictionNovelCrazyTasteLongingRationalImmortalShort StoryHeroismBehaviourObstinacyPortraiture Book:Stories Source: Stories
“Nothing is wrong with you. You're not different. Everybody feels as bad as you do: this is just what writing a novel feels like. To write a novel is to come in contact with raw, primal feelings, hopes and longings and psychic wounds, and try to make a big public word-sculpture out of them, and that is a crazy hard thing to do.” FeelsWritingTryingDifferentHardFeelingsBigsNovelCrazyLongingWoundsContactThings To DoPsychicsSculpturePrimalHard Things Author:Lev Grossman