Another reason I think the novel will survive is that the reader has to work in a novel. In a film, you are presented with someone else's imagination exactly bodied out. The marvelous thing about a novel is that every reader will imagine even the very simplest sentence slightly differently.
John FowlesShe's always looking for poetry and passion and sensitivity, the whole Romantic kitchen. I live on a rather simpler diet.' 'Prose and pudding?''I don't expect attractive men necessarily to have attractive souls.
John FowlesWe talked for hours. He talked and I listened. It was like wind and sunlight. It blew all the cobwebs away.
John FowlesDuty is but a pot. It holds whatever is put in it, from the greatest evil to the greatest good.
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