19 Aspects of the Novel Quotes & Sayings with Wallpapers & Posters - Quotes.Pub

Here you will find all the famous Aspects of the Novel quotes. There are more than 19 quotes in our Aspects of the Novel quotes collection. We have collected all of them and made stunning Aspects of the Novel wallpapers & posters out of those quotes. You can use this wallpapers & posters on mobile, desktop, print and frame them or share them on the various social media platforms. You can download the quotes images in various different sizes for free. In the below list you can find quotes by some of the famous authors like E.M. Forster

the novel is not capable of as much artistic development as the drama: its humanity or the grossness of its material hinder it (use whichever phrase you like). To most readers of fiction the sensation from a pattern is not intense enough to justify the sacrifices that made it, and their verdict is “Beautifully done, but not worth doing.

Aspects of the Novel Quotes

The beauty who does not look surprised, who accepts her position as her due—she reminds us too much of a prima donna.

Aspects of the Novel Quotes

one of the illusions attached to love is that it will be permanent. Not has been—will be. All history, all our experience, teaches us that no human relationship is constant, it is as unstable as the living beings who compose it, and they must balance like jugglers if it is to remain; if it is constant it is no longer a human relationship but a social habit, the emphasis in it has passed from love to marriage. All this we know, yet we cannot bear to apply our bitter knowledge to the future; the future is to be so different; the perfect person is to come along, or the person we know already is to become perfect. There are to be no changes, no necessity for alertness. We are to be happy or even perhaps miserable for ever and ever. Any strong emotion brings with it the illusion of permanence, and the novelists have seized upon this. They usually end their books with marriage, and we do not object because we lend them our dreams.

Aspects of the Novel Quotes

Unless we remember we cannot understand.

Understanding Quotes / Aspects of the Novel Quotes Memory Quotes Writing Quotes

A mirror does not develop because an historical pageant passes in front of it. It only develops when it gets a fresh coat of quicksilver—in other words, when it acquires new sensitiveness; and the novel’s success lies in its own sensitiveness, not in the success of its subject matter.

Aspects of the Novel Quotes

Food, the stoking-up process, the keeping alive of an individual flame, the process that begins before birth and is continued after it by the mother, and finally taken over by the individual himself, who goes on day after day putting an assortment of objects into a hole in his face without becoming surprised or bored.

Aspects of the Novel Quotes Eating Quotes Food Quotes

Neither memory nor anticipation is much interested in Father Time, and all dreamers, artists and lovers are partially delivered from his tyranny;

Aspects of the Novel Quotes

Human beings have their great chance in the novel. They say to the novelist: “Recreate us if you like, but we must come in,” and the novelist’s problem, as we have seen all along, is to give them a good run and to achieve something else at the same time. Whither shall he turn? not indeed for help but for analogy. Music, though it does not employ human beings, though it is governed by intricate laws, nevertheless does offer in its final expression a type of beauty which fiction might achieve in its own way. Expansion. That is the idea the novelist must cling to. Not completion. Not rounding off but opening out. When the symphony is over we feel that the notes and tunes composing it have been liberated, they have found in the rhythm of the whole their individual freedom. Cannot the novel be like that? Is not there something of it in War and Peace?-—the book with which we began and in which we must end. Such an untidy book. Yet, as we read it, do not great chords begin to sound behind us, and when we have finished does not every item—even the catalogue of strategies—lead a larger existence than was possible at the time?

Aspects of the Novel Quotes

we may say that History develops, Art stands still

Art Quotes History Quotes Time Quotes / Aspects of the Novel Quotes Creative process Quotes Development Quotes

Most of us are pseudo-scholars...for we are a very large and quite a powerful class, eminent in Church and State, we control the education of the Empire, we lend to the Press such distinction as it consents to receive, and we are a welcome asset at dinner-parties.Pseudo-scholarship is, on its good side, the homage paid by ignorance to learning. It also has an economic side, on which we need not be hard. Most of us must get a job before thirty, or sponge on our relatives, and many jobs can only be got by passing an exam. The pseudo-scholar often does well in examination (real scholars are not much good), and even when he fails he appreciates their inner majesty. They are gateways to employment, they have power to ban and bless. A paper on King Lear may lead somewhere, unlike the rather far-fetched play of the same name. It may be a stepping-stone to the Local Government Board. He does not often put it to himself openly and say, "That's the use of knowing things, they help you to get on." The economic pressure he feels is more often subconscious, and he goes to his exam, merely feeling that a paper on King Lear is a very tempestuous and terrible experience but an intensely real one. ...As long as learning is connected with earning, as long as certain jobs can only be reached through exams, so long must we take the examination system seriously. If another ladder to employment were contrived, much so-called education would disappear, and no one be a penny the stupider.

Academia Quotes Aspects of the Novel Quotes College Quotes Economics Quotes Employment Quotes Exams Quotes

The human mind is not a dignified organ, and I do not see how we can exercise it sincerely except through eclecticism. And the only advice I would offer my fellow eclectics is: "Do not be proud of your inconsistency. It is a pity, it is a pity that we should be equipped like this. It is a pity that Man cannot be at the same time impressive and truthful.

Truth Quotes / Aspects of the Novel Quotes Eclectic Quotes Literature writing Quotes Novel Quotes Writing Quotes

If human nature does alter it will be because individuals manage to look at themselves in a new way. Here and there people — a very few people, but a few novelists are among them — are trying to do this. Every institution and vested interest is against such a search: organized religion, the State, the family in its economic aspect, have nothing to gain, and it is only when outward prohibitions weaken that it can proceed: history conditions it to that extent. Perhaps the searchers will fail, perhaps it is impossible for the instrument of contemplation to contemplate itself, perhaps if it is possible it means the end of imaginative literature — [...] anyhow—that way lies movement and even combustion for the novel, for if the novelist sees himself differently, he will see his characters differently and a new system of lighting will result.

Future Quotes / Aspects of the Novel Quotes Imagination Quotes Literature Quotes Movement Quotes Novel Quotes

Human beings have their great chance in the novel.

Meaning of life Quotes / Aspects of the Novel Quotes Literature Quotes Meaning Quotes

The final test of a novel will be our affection for it, as it is the test of our friends, and of anything else which we cannot define.

Aspects of the Novel Quotes

Books have to be read (worse luck, for it takes a long time); it is the only way of discovering what they contain.

Education Quotes Learning Quotes Reading Quotes / Aspects of the Novel Quotes Books Quotes Scholorship Quotes

Expansion. That is the idea the novelist must cling to. Not completion. Not rounding off, but opening out.

Aspects of the Novel Quotes Creative process Quotes Expansion Quotes Opening up Quotes Writing Quotes

Let us think of people as starting life with an experience they forget and ending it with one which they anticipate but cannot understand.

Aspects of the Novel Quotes Death Quotes Life Quotes

We move between two darknesses.

Aspects of the Novel Quotes Mind Quotes Spirit Quotes

Long books, when read, are usually overpraised, because the reader wishes to convince others and himself that he has not wasted his time.

Reading Quotes / Aspects of the Novel Quotes Criticism Quotes Exaggeration Quotes Long book Quotes Overpraising Quotes Praise Quotes