Being a novelist is hard for anyone - male or female. You don't get to quit your day job. — Jennifer Weiner Copy Share Image
“Now that I was a novelist, I could not face the ignominy of failing to produce novels.” — Thomas Keneally Copy Share Image
... the novelist is bound by the reasonable possibilities, not the probabilities, of his culture. — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
I'm a novelist at heart. How's that? And that's how I make my living, is I write novels. — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
“Life is full of beautiful moments. Live your life to the fullest. And do what you love.” — Santonu Kumar Dhar Copy Share Image
Being a novelist, you can roam around with a story and indulge yourself. — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
“Every book has to wait for the right time to be read and understood.” — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
I was always at heart a novelist and wanted to tell a bigger story, so I wanted to create people who told… — Aminatta Forna Copy Share Image
We live in an age in which the imagination of the novelist is helpless against what he knows he is going to… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
“A body of work, therefore, reveals the intellectual and emotional progress of the writer, and is a map of his soul. It's… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
A novelist should make you realize nothing is stable. If you don't believe anything with robustness, you're doing something more radical than… — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
Reviewers do not read books with much care . . . their profession is more given to stupidity and malice and literary… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
The artist deals in what cannot be said in words. The artist whose medium is fiction does this in words. The novelist… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Writing tends to be very deliberate. A novelist could probably run a military campaign with some success. They could certainly run a… — Colm Toibin Copy Share Image
If the novelist isn't surprised by where his book ends up, he or she probably hasn't written anything worth remembering. — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
The novelist is required to open his eyes on the world around him and look. If what he sees is not highly… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
You know, my mom, who inspired me to be a novelist, I remember her reading 'The Agony and the Ecstasy,' about Michelangelo,… — Scott Turow Copy Share Image
A novel is based on evidence, + or -x, the unknown quantity being the temperament of the novelist, and the unknown quantity… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
Working on an adaptation is not as satisfying, because it's not your original work: you're interpreting. With 'L.A. Confidential,' I loved the… — Brian Helgeland Copy Share Image
One's politics are part of one even when one is writing. But if I want to say anything about the state of… — Thomas Mallon Copy Share Image
Back when the concept of organ transplants qualified as science fiction, novelist Maurice Renard wrote a thriller called 'Les Mains d'Orlac.' Call… — Kage Baker Copy Share Image
“The autobiographer, for his part, is imprisoned in his own egotism. He must always be suspect. In contrast with the other two,… — Anthony Powell Copy Share Image
I see myself as a novelist, period. I mean, the material I work with is what is classified as science fiction and… — Roger Zelazny Copy Share Image
“Nothing is sillier than the creative writing teacher's dictum "Write about what you know." But whether you're writing about people or dragons,… — John Gardner Copy Share Image
“No one has expressed it better than a great novelist I heard once on a talk show who said something like "You… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“What I like about the job of being a novelist, and at the same time what I find so exhausting about it,… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
“One has to be just a little crazy to write a great novel. One must be capable of allowing the darkest, most… — john gardner Copy Share Image
“Drama usually bases itself on the bedrock of original sin, whether the writer thinks in theological terms or not. Then, too, any… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
“The thought of the novelist that matters most is the thought that makes him a novelist. The thought of the novelist lies… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
“I've written you sixty-seven love poems. Here’s another one for you. But really, for me. These poems are the candles that I… — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
“The taste for books was an early one. As a child he was sometimes found at midnight by a page still reading.… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
