The point is, that the function of the novel seems to be changing; it has become an outpost of journalism; we read novels for information about areas of life we don't know — Nigeria, South Africa, the American army, a coal-mining village, coteries in Chelsea, etc. We read to find out what is going on. One novel in five hundred or a thousand has the quality a novel should have to make it a novel — the quality of philosophy.


Anna Wulf, in "Free Women: 1" - The Golden Notebook (1962)

Doris Lessing Quotes

The point is, that the function of the novel seems to be changing; it has become an outpost of journalism; we read novels for information about areas ...

The point is, that the function of the novel seems to be changing; it has become an outpost of journalism; we read novels for information about areas ...

The point is, that the function of the novel seems to be changing; it has become an outpost of journalism; we read novels for information about areas ...

The point is, that the function of the novel seems to be changing; it has become an outpost of journalism; we read novels for information about areas ...