For a Jewish Puritan of the middle class, the novel is serious, the novel is work, the novel is conscientious application --why, the novel is practically the retail business all over again.
Source: Journal of the Fictive Life, Reflexions of the Novelist Felix Ledger, sct. C, 1965.
-- Howard Nemerov, (Mar 1 1920-1991), US poet, novelist, critic; His poetry, marked by irony and self-deprecatory wit, is often about nature; won Pulitzer Prize, 1978, for The Collected Poems of Howard Nemerov.