1,336 Quotes About Novel

Temperee, riante, (comme le sont celles d'automne dans la tres gracieuse ville de Buenos Aires) resplendissait la matinee de ce 28 avril: dix heures venait de sonner aux horloges et, a cet instant, eveillee, gesticulant sous le soleil matinal, la Grande Capitale du Sud etait un epi d'hommes qui se disputaient a grands cris la possession du jour et de la terre.

Sorel's novels deserve to be revived, but Polexander can be left in its watery grave.

And if the novel [The Education of Cyrus] remains dull by modern standards, we have to remind ourselves Xenophon didn't set out to write a "novel" — there was no such thing yet in his culture — but was feeling his way to a new form somewhere between factual history and fanciful epic. Our hat is always off to innovators.

So we'll leave him [Plato] to the philosophers and not try to make a novelist of him against his will; he excluded innovative artists from his ideal republic, so we'll exclude him from our republic of fiction.

Blessings be upon you, Heliodorus, for bringing the novel into full intellectual maturity and for showing what this newfangled genre could be in the hands of a master.

I suppose someone could trawl through the 383 volumes of Migne's Patrologiae Cursus Completus and extract some book-length hagiographies that qualify as novels — there had to be a few protonovelists who adopted hagiography as the only game in town, as painters of religious subjects learned to do — but that someone isn't me.

They ain’t rich folk, that I know. Rich folk don’t try so hard.

Lansih membelanjakan sebagian besar dari uangnya ke toko buku. Dia tidak meluangkan waktu sedikit pun tanpa memegang buku di pangkuannya.

Barangkali kami wanita juga memiliki cara untuk mengirim isayarat, sesuai dengan dasar kemestian dan adat yang ditentukan oleh "masyarakat" lelaki.