Milan Kundera | "The novel is born not of the theoretical spirit but of the spirit of humor."

"The novel is born not of the theoretical spirit but of the spirit of humor."

Milan Kundera, Czechoslovakian Writer

Novel, Humor, Narrative, Spirit, Writing

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"The novel is born not of the theoretical spirit but of the spirit of humor."

"But novels are never about what they are about; that is, there is always deeper, or more general, significance. The author may not be aware of this till she is pretty far along with it."

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Personal Development

"The novel is born not of the theoretical spirit but of the spirit of humor."

Author Name

Personal Development

"Between Scott on the earlier side and Dickens and Thackeray on the other, there was an immense production of novels, illustrated by not a few names which should rank high in the second class, while some would promote more than one of them to the first."

Author Name

Personal Development

"I sold my very first novel when I was 24 or 25 years old."

Author Name

Personal Development

"He was no longer quite sure whether anything he had ever thought or felt was truly his own property, or whether his thoughts were merely a common part of the world's store of ideas which had always existed ready-made and which people only borrowed, like books from a library."

Philosophy

"I think I am a much better actor than I have allowed myself to be."

Actor

"He took her in his arms and lifted her up. She looked at him and he noticed only now that her eyes were full of tears. He pressed her to him. She understood that he loved her and this suddenly filled her with sadness. She felt sad that he loved her so much, and she felt like crying."

Love

"A person's destiny often ends before his death."

Fate

"The light that radiates from the great novels time can never dim, for human existence is perpetually being forgotten by man and thus the novelists discoveries, however old they may be, will never cease to astonish."

Time

"Dreaming is not only an act of communication; it is also an aesthetic activity, a game of the imagination, a game that is a value in itself. Our dreams prove that to imagine - to dream about things that have not happened - is among mankind's deepest needs. Herein lies the danger. If dreams were beautiful, they would quickly be forgotten."

Dreams

"Is not an event in fact more significant and noteworthy the greater the number of fortuities necessary to bring it about? ... Everything that occurs out of necessity, everything expected, repeated day in and day out, is mute. Only chance can speak to us."

Fate

"I was not a hypocrite, with one real face and several false ones. I had several faces because I was young and didn't know who I was or wanted to be."

Identity

"(God) being the old man invented in order to, and with whom to, hold long conversations."

Spiritual

"Once the writer in every individual comes to life (and that time is not far off), we are in for an age of universal deafness and lack of understanding."

Writing

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"But novels are never about what they are about; that is, there is always deeper, or more general, significance. The author may not be aware of this till she is pretty far along with it."

Author Name

Personal Development

"The novel is born not of the theoretical spirit but of the spirit of humor."

Author Name

Personal Development

"Between Scott on the earlier side and Dickens and Thackeray on the other, there was an immense production of novels, illustrated by not a few names which should rank high in the second class, while some would promote more than one of them to the first."

Author Name

Personal Development

"I sold my very first novel when I was 24 or 25 years old."

Author Name

Personal Development

More

"He was no longer quite sure whether anything he had ever thought or felt was truly his own property, or whether his thoughts were merely a common part of the world's store of ideas which had always existed ready-made and which people only borrowed, like books from a library."

Philosophy

"I think I am a much better actor than I have allowed myself to be."

Actor

"He took her in his arms and lifted her up. She looked at him and he noticed only now that her eyes were full of tears. He pressed her to him. She understood that he loved her and this suddenly filled her with sadness. She felt sad that he loved her so much, and she felt like crying."

Love

"A person's destiny often ends before his death."

Fate

"The light that radiates from the great novels time can never dim, for human existence is perpetually being forgotten by man and thus the novelists discoveries, however old they may be, will never cease to astonish."

Time

Dreams

"Is not an event in fact more significant and noteworthy the greater the number of fortuities necessary to bring it about? ... Everything that occurs out of necessity, everything expected, repeated day in and day out, is mute. Only chance can speak to us."

Fate

"I was not a hypocrite, with one real face and several false ones. I had several faces because I was young and didn't know who I was or wanted to be."

Identity

"(God) being the old man invented in order to, and with whom to, hold long conversations."

Spiritual

"Once the writer in every individual comes to life (and that time is not far off), we are in for an age of universal deafness and lack of understanding."

Writing