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“One way to cope with the provocations of novel art is to rest firm and maintain solid standards... set by the critic's long-practiced taste and by his conviction that only those innovations will be significant which promote the established direction of advanced art.”

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Author:Leo Steinberg

“The critic interested in a novel manifestation holds his criteria and taste in reserve. Since they were formed upon yesterday's art, he does not assume that they are ready-made for today.”

Doe Art Made Today Novel Ready Taste Assuming Critics Yesterday Manifestation Reserves Criteria

Book:Other criteria: confrontations with twentieth-century art

Source: Other criteria: confrontations with twentieth-century art

“Romance and novel paint beauty in colors more charming than nature, and describe a happiness that humans never taste. How deceptive and destructive are those pictures of consummate bliss!”

Humans Romance Novel Color Taste Paint Bliss Destructive Charming Romanticism Deceptive

Author:Oliver Goldsmith

“Im omnivorous in my tastes, fiction and non-fiction, always several books on the go, though Ill read a novel in a day or two.”

Two Book Fiction Novel Taste Ill Non Fiction

Author:O.R. Melling

“... 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.”

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Book:Stories

Source: Stories

“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

“I like horror, but I tend to like it as seasoning. I'd get very bored if I was told I had to write a horror novel. I'd love to write a novel with horror elements, but too much, and it doesn't taste of anything else.”

Ifs Writing Novel Too Much Taste Horror Elements Bored Seasoning

Author:Neil Gaiman

“I'd never imagined myself writing at all until I was almost 30. And horror films weren't to my taste, at least the super popular (slasher-y) ones of the day back then. The first novel I ever loved as a kid was Frankenstein, and I was always a crazy Hitchcock and Polanski fan... but I never saw myself - a square spazzy girl from the suburbs - writing anything that would horrify anyone. Or so I thought.”

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Author:Karen Walton

“Doing crime films...maybe it's to some extent a matter of taste. Certainly my first novel had a criminal element and was about the similarity of criminals and artists. Pretextually, it was sort of a money bag thriller. But it was aggressively not what it seemed to be. It was kind of Duchamps.”

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Author:William Monahan

“A novel according to my taste, does not come into the moderately good class unless it contains some person whom one can thoroughly love - and if a pretty woman, all the better.”

Ifs Persons Doe Class Novel Taste Pretty Woman

Book:Autobiography and Selected Letters

Source: Autobiography and Selected Letters

“It's not in good taste to have talking ghosts in a grown-up novel.”

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Author:Zadie Smith

“If you like my novels, I commend your good taste.”

Ifs Novel Taste Good Taste

Book:Southern discomfort

Source: Southern discomfort

“If you don't like my book, write your own. If you don't think you can write a novel, that ought to tell you something. If you think you can, do. No excuses. If you still don't like my novel, find a book you do like. Life is too short to be miserable. If you do like my novels, I commend your good taste.”

Ifs Thinking Life Writing Stills Book Life Is Can Do Novel Ought Taste Excuse Miserable Too Short Life Is Too Short No Excuses Good Taste Write Your Own

Book:Southern discomfort

Source: Southern discomfort

“Maybe I've just read too many novels. In novels, alcoholics are always attractive and fuuny and charming and complex, like Sebastian Flyte or ABe North in Tender in the Night, and they're drinking because of a deep, unquenchable sadness of the soul, or the terrible legacy of the First World War, whereas I just get drunk because I'm thirsty, and I like the taste of lager.”

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Author:David Nicholls

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