Quotes on Great Novels

I always seem to get inspiration and renewed vitality by contact with this great novel land of yours which sticks up out of the Atlantic.

My notion of a great novel is something like a five-hundred-page shaggy-dog story, with only the punch line omitted.

France lost a great novel last night.

The really great novel tends to be the exact negative of its author's life.

The light that radiates from the great novels time can never dim, for human existence is perpetually being forgotten by man and thus the novelists' discoveries, however old they may be, will never cease to astonish.

All great novels, all true novels, are bisexual.

Great novels are always a little more intelligent than their authors.