“The last romantic novel I think I read was 'Tess of the d'Urbervilles....” — Bartlett Sher Quote

“The last romantic novel I think I read was 'Tess of the d'Urbervilles.'”

“That's the best thing that classic can do, is it can return to us from our own past to give us lessons about the future, and it can give us a sense of both who we were and who we could become.”

“Whenever you do a new interpretation of a great, previous text of any kind, you always look for some kind of immediate significance right now.”

“I had always secretly wanted to write a novel.”

“It's always fun to talk about a novel.”

“I like shape very much. A novel has to have shape, and life doesn't have any.”