#novel

Life is God's novel. Let him write it. ↗

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

#him #life #novel #write

I think in general, novels by men tend to be taken more seriously than novels by women. ↗

— Curtis Sittenfeld

#i #i think #men #more #novels

Ruskin says that anyone who expects perfection from a work of art knows nothing of works of art. This is an appealing sentence that, so far as I can see, is not true about a few pictures and statues and pieces of music, short stories and short poems. Whether or not you expect perfection from them, you get it; at least, there is nothing in them that you would want changed. But what Ruskin says is true about novels: anyone who expects perfection from even the greatest novel knows nothing of novels. ↗

— Randall Jarrell

#novels #perfection #art

I wonder what the retirement age is in the novel business. The day you die. ↗

— Yasunari Kawabata

#retirement #writing #age

You understand. I don't know. I am not sure how I would feel in your shoes. My mother wanted me. ↗

— Donna K. Childree

#adventure-stories #coming-of-age-novel #the-wayward-gifted #age

إن مشكلة العيش لمدة طويلة هي أن المرء يرى كثيرًا من الناس يمرون أمام عينيه ↗

— Lisa See

#old-age #old-people #age

Writing fiction is the act of weaving a series of lies to arrive at a greater truth. ↗

— Khaled Hosseini

#books #deception #fiction #lies #novels

Art, though, is never the voice of a country; it is an even more precious thing, the voice of the individual, doing its best to speak, not comfort of any sort, but truth. And the art that speaks it most unmistakably, most directly, most variously, most fully, is fiction; in particular, the novel. ↗

— Eudora Welty

#fiction #novels #writing #art

This place is alive," Sunni said in wonder. "Things are moving. Inside a painting. ↗

— Teresa Flavin

#fantasy #novel #art

it is better to have red a great work of another culture in translation than never to have read it at all. ↗

— Henry Gratton Doyle

#don-quixote #great-novels-in-translation #the-art-of-translation #translation #translations