20th Century Novel Quotes

#1. It could be a technology that would erase a feeling that an entire generation felt while staring into their computer screens.

Nick Bilton

#2. A day out of season, stopping the monotonous count of summer days. Stopping, too, one's own summer routine, so that, looking out on the gray skies, one says not only, 'What time of year is it?' but, 'What time of life am I in? Where am I? What am I doing?

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

#3. 'Atlas Shrugged,' let's face it, was probably the most important novel of the 20th century that was never a film.

Albert S. Ruddy

#4. Still, no gardener would be a gardener if he did not live in hope.

Vita Sackville-West

#5. I think every age has a medium that talks to it more eloquently than the others. In the 19th century it was symphonic music and the novel. For various technical and artistic reasons, film became that eloquent medium for the 20th century.

Walter Murch

#6. I am writing about people who are alive in the city of New York during mid-20th-century America. And these people are like a character in a play or they are figures in a short story or a novel.

Gay Talese

#7. The key holds the truth

Libba Bray

#8. To build a road is so much simpler than to think of what the country really needs.

Aldo Leopold