He looks like a man.' 'How descriptive,' Susan said in a droll tone. 'Remind me never to advise you to seek work… — Julia Quinn Copy Share Image
The novelist is the vestigial bone on the body cinema. We're like the little toe that can be cut off. — Don Winslow Copy Share Image
“A novelist is essentially a person who covers distance through his patience, slowly, like an ant. A novelist impresses us not by… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
I'm a novelist who read a lot as a kid. When you grow up on books and then grow up to write… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I resist when someone calls me a novelist: it implies some kind of inherent superiority of the novel. I'm not a novelist,… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
The true novelist is one who understands the work as a continuous poem, is a myth-maker, and the wonder of the art… — Muriel Spark Copy Share Image
“A novelist is similar to a triathlete. Train hard every day. You will be timed and measured. Budget to promote, grow, and… — Caroline Gerardo Copy Share Image
You say that you hope I will be recognized as the best novelist of my generation. I want you to know now… — Jean Stafford Copy Share Image
“Q: What literary complexities do you find most interesting? That is, what do you like most to "solve," so to speak, as… — Gilbert Sorrentino Copy Share Image
We all live on so many different levels and understandably present just a small portion of ourselves in most of our everyday… — Elizabeth Strout Copy Share Image
“I know you would be watching over me all through this journey called life... whenever I look next to me, I feel… — Santonu Kumar Dhar Copy Share Image
Years ago I used to think it was possible for a novelist to alter the inner life of the culture. Now bomb-makers… — Don Delillo Copy Share Image
A novelist's lack of awareness of and critical distance to his own body of work is due to a phenomenon that I… — Patrick Modiano Copy Share Image
“Being a novelist is not the sort of thing we can shut off. It infests every bit of us until we lose… — Thomm Quackenbush Copy Share Image
Like every novelist, I fantasise about film. Novelists are not equipped to make a movie, in my opinion. They make their own… — John le Carre Copy Share Image
Let's put it this way: if you are a novelist, I think you start out with a 20 word idea, and you… — Eric Carle Copy Share Image
As a novelist, I like the contained drama and complexity of the courtroom, though I don't watch those shows on TV. I… — Elizabeth Strout Copy Share Image
To become a novelist, the most crucial thing one must do is read, read and read again - gradually you begin to… — Avi Copy Share Image
“The reader may not see [these meanings], but they have their effect on him nonetheless. This is the way the modern novelist… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
A novelist should not be too intelligent either, although... he may be permitted to be an intellectual. — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
“If a novelist were so uncouth and possessed of so little moral sense that he should write of illicit love, his book… — Clyde Brion Davis Copy Share Image
I started my career as an actor, then morphed into a playwright who accidentally became a novelist with my first book 'Fall… — Ann-Marie MacDonald Copy Share Image
“Perhaps a novelist has a greater ability to forget than other men--he has to forget or become sterile. What he forgets is… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
The economy of a novelist is a little like that of a careful housewife who is unwilling to throw away anything that… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
I wouldn't say that I'm a travel novelist, but rather a novelist who travels - and who uses travel as a background… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
A novelist has mad a fictional representation of life. I doing so, he has revealed to us more significance, it may be,… — Bernard DeVoto Copy Share Image
I'm a novelist at heart. My sole intention is to write the best novel possible. I don't think about the film potential… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
The contemporary American novelist benefits in a way from being ignored. It makes you angrier and makes you want to go into… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
“A deed done to others, but for yourself is not a worthy one at all. Instead, place another before you; in this… — Jason W. Blair Copy Share Image
I wanted to write about the Korean War, but I had no entry into it that made the kind of sense it… — Chang-Rae Lee Copy Share Image
More than anything I am a novelist. But for me, an author's job is not only to create linguistically accomplished works. As… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
And that singular anomaly, the lady novelist-- I don't think she'd be missed--I'm sure she'd not be missed! — W. S. Gilbert Copy Share Image
Talents of the novelist: ... observation of character, analysis of emotion, people's feelings, personal relations ... — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
I think a novelist must be more tender with living or 'real' people. The moral imperative of having been entrusted with their… — Rick Bass Copy Share Image
The novelist is more a marathon runner than long-distance runner and the kind of courage it takes working in such isolation cannot… — Tobsha Learner Copy Share Image
To be honest, I want readers to be wrung out. As a novelist, I don't have a political agenda or specific philosophy;… — Jillian Medoff Copy Share Image
I don't like to read novels where the novelist tells me what to think about the situation and the characters. I prefer… — Frederick Wiseman Copy Share Image
“The novelist is condemned to wander all his life. Homeless and blind like Oedipus he wanders until death. And so let us… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
As a novelist, I'm incredibly lucky to make a living, but that doesn't mean that I don't lie awake at four o'clock… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
A novelist must preserve a childlike belief in the importance of things which common sense considers of no great consequence. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
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