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“Personally, I'd never seen a graphic novel. I knew they existed because friends of mine like Jonathan Ross collect them and some very literate and intelligent people really rate the graphic novel as a form.”

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Author:Stephen Fry

“The result of a public that has a very high consumption rate and turnover rate is people listen to more music but spend less time with individual bits of music. It's made me more likely to put things up quickly and treat it more like a magazine instead of a novel.”

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Author:Trent Reznor

“Art, at any rate in a novel, must be indissolubly linked with craft.”

Art Novel Rate Crafts Linked

Author:Elizabeth Bowen

“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.”

Thinking Feels Looks Doe Book Seems Passion Memories Novel Rate Titles Classic Lasting Disappointed Mediocre Bookshelves Second Rate

Author:John Boyne

“The ratio of authentic literature to trash in pornography may be somewhat lower than the ratio of novels of genuine literary meritto the entire volume of sub-literary fiction produced for mass taste. But it is probably not lower than, for instance, that of another somewhat shady sub-genre with a few first-rate books to its credit, science fiction.”

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Author:Susan Sontag

“Our rate of progress is such that an individual human being, of ordinary length of life, will be called on to face novel situations which find no parallel in his past. The fixed person, for the fixed duties, who, in older societies was such a godsend, in the future will be a public danger.”

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Book:Science and the Modern World

Source: Science and the Modern World

“Nobody can be so beautiful from the outside and so hollow from inside. Not even in a third-rate novel.”

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Book:The Way of the Women

Source: The Way of the Women