The novel is the one bright book of life. Books are not life. They are only tremulations on the ether. But the novel as a tremulation can make the whole man alive tremble.
D.H. Lawrence D. H. Lawrence (25 July 1985). Study of Thomas Hardy and Other Essays. Cambridge University Press. p. 195. ISBN 978-0-521-27248-3.
Michael Chabon in Henry Jenkins; Wyn Kelley; Katie Clinton (2013). Reading in a Participatory Culture: Remixing Moby-Dick in the English Classroom. Teachers College Press. p. 146. ISBN 978-0-8077-5401-6.