List Of Modern Novel Quotes

A Book Is Sent Out Into The World, And There Is No Way Of Fully Anticipating The Responses It Will Elicit. Consider The Responses Called Forth By The Bible, Homer, Shakespeare - Let Alone Contemporary Poetry Or A Modern Novel.

Books Of Quick Interest, That Hurry On For Incidents Are For The Eye To Glide Over Only. It Will Not Do To Read Them Out. I Could Never Listen To Even The Better Kind Of Modern Novels Without Extreme Irksomeness.

In Modern Novels I Try To Not Let Myself Get Away And To Be Here, And That's Why I Write About My Life And Myself. But Even When I Do That There's An Element Of Disappearing To A Place That's Not Me. It's "the Selflessness Of Writing". It Seldom Happens, But When It Does It's Worth Quite A Lot.

For Being Able To Use Language Was A Critical Skill That Could Carry One Far. One Could Use It Professionally, As A Crafter Of Everything From Political Speeches To Modern Novels. One Could Use It Personally, As A Tool Of Discovery Or A Means Of Staying Connected To Others. One Could Use It As An Outlet That Would Feed The Artistic Spirit Of The Creator, Which Existed In Everyone.

I Read A Lot Of Detective Stories Because They Always Deliver. They Give You A Beginning, A Middle, And An End - A Resolution. The Modern Novels I Read Don't Always Deliver Because I'm Looking Essentially For A Story. As In Shakespeare, "the Play's The Thing." In Particular I Read Detective Stories For Pacing, Plot And Suspense.

I Also Read Modern Novels - I Have Just Had To Read 60 As I Am One Of The Judges For The Orange Fiction Prize.