“I have always argued, in a good novel, interesting things happen to interesting people.” PeopleHappensInterestingNovelThings HappenInteresting Things Author:Guy Gavriel Kay
“The novel may be dead as a commercial form. When art forms things die as commercial forms, something happens to the practice of those arts that isn't very pleasant. It used to be that a poet like Tennyson could keep his house and his coach-and-four and his staff of six servants on the income from poetry. That doesn't happen anymore.” MayArtHappensFormUsedDiesHousePracticeNovelFourPoetSixCoachesThings HappenIncomeUsed To BeServantPleasantStaffTennyson Author:William Monahan
“You say fate is almost indispensable to literature - I think it's completely indispensable, at least in a novel, because a novel always has a plot. Even if nothing happens, even if someone just spends a day walking around Dublin, or whatever, there's still something going on.” IfsThinkingStillsHappensLiteratureNovelFateWalkingThings HappenPlotIndispensableDublin Author:Daniel Kehlmann