Novelists of a conservative or more purely aesthetic bent hold up better on the surface, but their novels go in and out of fashion according to relevance or irrelevance.
Jane SmileySome people do wait their whole lives for something, and it's only when that thing arrives that they find out that they've been waiting rather than living.
Jane SmileyIf to live is to progress, if you are lucky, from foolishness to wisdom, then to write novels is to broadcast the various stages of your foolishness.
Jane Smiley