“It has long been a tradition among novel writers that a book must end by everybody getting just what they wanted, or if the conventional happy ending was impossible, then it must be a tragedy in which one or both should die. In real life very few of us get what we want, our tragedies don't kill us, but we go on living them year after year, carrying them with us like a scar on an old wound.” IfsWantShouldWritingYearsLongBookRealEndsWantedDiesNovelImpossibleGoes OnTraditionTragedyWoundsReal LifeScarConventionalHappy EndingsOld Wounds Author:Willa Cather
“There's a tradition in American fiction that is deadly serious and earnest - like the Steinbeckian social novel.” SocialFictionNovelSeriousTraditionEarnest Author:John Hodgman
“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.” IfsThinkingWayShouldWritingProblemNovelCenturyTraditionBoundsClassicFabulous19th CenturyLinearBorgesAmerican TraditionMarquez Author:Jeanette Winterson
“The English tradition offers the great tapestry novel, where you have the emotional aspect of a detective's personal life, the circumstances of the crime and, most important, the atmosphere of the English countryside that functions as another character.” ImportantCharacterNovelCrimeEmotionalCircumstancesOffersAspectTraditionFunctionAtmospherePersonal LifeDetectivesCountrysideTapestryTapestry Of LifeEnglish Countryside Author:Elizabeth George
“There isn't, even now, a great tradition of novel-writing in Afghanistan. Most of the literature is in the form of poetry.” WritingFormLiteratureNovelTraditionAfghanistanNovel Writing Author:Khaled Hosseini
“To AMC's credit, I think what they saw was the show doesn't exist in the marketplace. They knew that there was a hunger for a martial arts show. They also knew that you have this strong tradition of martial arts cinema, so even though it's not branded by a novel or a comic book or an old movie or something, we do have the genre itself, which people love.” PeopleThinkingArtBookShowsStrongNovelSawsTraditionHungerCreditComicGenreCinemaMartial ArtsComic BookMarketplaceBrandedOld Movie Author:Alfred Gough
“I sort of hate the novel when it doesn't push, restlessly, against the tradition and the traditional.” HateNovelTraditionTraditional Author:Rick Moody
“I think the martial arts tradition has a big influence on our generation - we all read these novels when we were very young.” ThinkingArtBigsYoungNovelGenerationsInfluenceTraditionMartial ArtsOur Generation Author:Wong Kar-wai
“There's a long-term tradition of white supremacy in this country. [Donald] Trump isn't something entirely new. But then there is the crisis for white supremacy in this country now where you have people of color standing up for themselves in ways that they've never stood up for themselves or at least standing up for themselves in a generational, novel way.” PeopleWayLongCountryTermWhiteNovelColorTrumpStandingTraditionCrisisLong TermWhite SupremacySupremacyStood Up Author:Junot Diaz