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Read through the most famous quotes by topic #novels
I wonder what the retirement age is in the novel business. The day you die. ↗
#retirement #writing #age
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. ↗
it is better to have red a great work of another culture in translation than never to have read it at all. ↗
#don-quixote #great-novels-in-translation #the-art-of-translation #translation #translations
It is untrue that fiction is nonutilitarian. The uses of fiction are synonymous with the uses of literature. They include refreshment, clarification of life, self-awareness, expansion of our range of experiences, and enlargement of our sense of understanding and discovery, perception, intensification, expression, beauty , and understanding. Like literature generally, fiction is a form of discovery, perception, intensification, expression, beauty, and understanding. If it is all these things, the question of whether it is a legitimate use of time should not even arise. ↗
Oh, but it's so much fun to watch a man beg for a change. And I'm afraid if you really want to work here, you're going to have to do some serious begging. ↗
A mysterious ability, a broken promise, a life changed forever... ↗
#novels #page-turner-beach-read #romance #women-s-fiction #change
I never liked the influence of others when it came to feelings. I rather went through the painful process of analyzing everything half to death. ↗
He said he wants variety. The irony is that I wanted variety too. But I wanted variety in a solid, stable committed relationship where I would wake up each morning asking “What are we going to do today?” not asking “Who are you going to do today? ↗
