Quotes by Alain Robbe Grillet

A new form will always seem more or less an absence of any form at all, since it is unconsciously judged by reference to the consecrated forms.

The art of the novel, however, has fallen into such a state of stagnation - a lassitude acknowledged and discussed by the whole of critical opinion - that it is hard to imagine such an art can survive for long without some radical change. To many, the solution seems simple enough: such a change being impossible, the art of the novel is dying.