The greatest of superficial novelists... It were, in our opinion, an offense against humanity to place Mr Dickens among the greatest novelists.
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Henry James, review of Our Mutual Friend in The Nation (21 December 1865).Charles Dickens
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I look upon Upton Sinclair as one of the greatest novelists in the world, the Zola of America.
Upton Sinclair
The best of our fiction is by novelists who allow that it is as good as they can give, and the worst by novelists who maintain that they could do much better if only the public would let them.
J. M. Barrie
Great novelists are philosopher-novelists who write in images instead of arguments.
Albert Camus
A petty reason perhaps why novelists more and more try to keep a distance from journalists is that novelists are trying to write the truth and journalists are trying to write fiction.
Graham Greene
Like the great European novelists of the 19th century, Kalki was a master of striking scenes and episodes. With some of the burning patriotic fervour of a Bankim Chandra and a Hari Narayan Apte, something too of the humour of Dickens and the gift of portraiture of a Thackeray Kalki spread out his novels in impressive sequence. Very often he is compared with Dickens and Thackeray for his sense of humour and his gift of portraiture respectively.
Kalki (R. Krishnamurthy) Krishnamurthy
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