#nov

I attempt to write a good novel. Whether it is literature or not is something that will be decided by the ages, not by me and not by a pack of critics around the globe. ↗

— Elizabeth George

#around #attempt #critics #decided #globe

I've written six novels and four pieces of nonfiction, so I don't really have a genre these days. ↗

— Anne Lamott

#four #genre #i #nonfiction #novels

[C. S. Lewis] showed me that newness is no virtue and oldness is no vice. Truth and beauty and goodness are not determined by when they exist. Nothing is inferior for being old, and nothing is valuable for being modern. This has freed me from the tyranny of novelty and opened for me the wisdom of the ages. ↗

— John Piper

#oldness #age

We need a positive economic agenda that invests in the innovation and growth that will create jobs for middle class families and ensure that America remains the world leader. ↗

— Rick Larsen

#america #class #create #economic #ensure

Environmentalism opposes reckless innovation and makes conservation the central order of business. ↗

— Christopher Lasch

#central #conservation #environmentalism #innovation #makes

Sure, they were simple desk lamps with only a minimal amount of movement, but you could immediately tell that Luxo Jr. was a baby, and that the big one was his mother. In that short little film, computer animation went from a novelty to a serious tool for filmmaking. ↗

— John Lasseter

#animation #baby #big #computer #could

I am no longer concerned with sensation and innovation, but with the perfection of my style. ↗

— Yves Saint Laurent

#concerned #i #i am #innovation #longer

I have resolved to pick one novel and just read it over and over again for the rest of my life, because I cannot remember anything anymore. ↗

— Hugh Laurie

#anymore #anything #because #cannot #i

If this were a proper world, beautiful faces would belong to beautiful people. Good people with kind hearts and clever minds would always have bright eyes and dazzling smiles, and bad people would have scraggly hair and warty noses. That way if you saw one of them coming, you could cross to the other side of the street and avoid them altogether. But this is not a proper world. In our world, many bad people look quite nice, and many good people are not beautiful at all. Many good people aren't pretty or cute or even interesting-looking. ↗

— Brit Trogen

#imagination #inner-beauty #margaret-and-the-moth-tree #novel #people

The novel is the highest form of human expression so far attained. Why? Because it is so incapable of the absolute. ↗

— David Herbert Lawrence

#attained #because #expression #far #form