Novel Quotes

“You should be able to do anything with a novel. It should be a great, big, sloppy, baggy monster.”

“The only obligation to which in advance we may hold a novel, without incurring the accusation of being arbitrary, is that it be interesting.”

“There are no laws for the novel. There never have been, nor can there ever be.”

“The novel, if it be anything, is contemporary history, an exact and complete reproduction of social surroundings of the age in which we live.”

“The only excuse for a novelist, aside from the need of money, is the desire to create a world.”

“The novel is the private history of nations.”