I tried to reject everything I knew as a TV writer when I decided to be a novelist, and the books didn't… — Robert Crais Copy Share Image
I’ve always said to people, "I don’t care what you call me as long as the checks don’t bounce and the family… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“She is a tyrant much in the way of a bad novelist, who shapes his characters according to his own ideology or… — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
A great novelist must open the reader's heart, allow the reader to remember the vastness and glory -- and shame and shabbiness… — Carolyn See Copy Share Image
I'm a natural novelist. I'm interested in the person and the group, and how they mesh. And one of the ways I… — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
I have an English literature degree. I wanted to be the next great American novelist from a very early age, but I… — Daniel Suarez Copy Share Image
“As a historical novelist, there is very little I like more than spending time sorting through boxes of old letters, diaries, maps,… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
As a novelist, I feel lucky that I can traffic in nuance. I'm more interested in looking at how things change over… — Meg Wolitzer Copy Share Image
There's a curious knot that binds novelists and terrorists...Years ago I used to think it was possible for a novelist to alter… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
An important factor to note is that it's rare for anyone to sell a first novel written before they turned 30-35; long-format… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
“Reading is a full contact sport; we crash up against the wave of words with all of our intellectual, imaginative, and emotional… — Thomas C. Foster Copy Share Image
So much of a novelist's writing, as I have said, takes place in the unconscious: in those depths the last word is… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
To me, the newspaper business was a way to learn about life and how things worked in the real world and how… — Carl Hiaasen Copy Share Image
It can be dismaying, all the same, for a novelist to compare the slowness of the writing with the speed of the… — Graham Swift Copy Share Image
A great novelist excels on the small scale and the large, the individual leaf and root as well as the forest; good… — Laura Miller Copy Share Image
The business of a novelist is, in my opinion, to create characters first and foremost, and then to set them in the… — John Dos Passos Copy Share Image
“The novel is an event in consciousness. Our aim isn't to copy actuality, but to modify and recreate our sense of it.… — George Buchanan Copy Share Image
“...Cody is furiously explaining to his little son Tim 'Never let the right hand know what your left hand is doing'... Page 100.” — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
The novelist ... must live in paranoia and seek to be one with the world; he must be terrified of experience and… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
A novelist's characters must be with him as he lies down to sleep, and as he wakes from his dreams. He must… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Britain proves to be an ideal setting for many a medieval-minded crime novelist, regardless of century. — Sarah Weinman Copy Share Image
I think of myself now as a writer, although I wouldn't go as far as to say 'novelist' because that sounds like… — Dawn French Copy Share Image
The job of the novelist is to invent: to embroider, to color, to embellish, to entertain, to make things up. The art… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
Nobody asks you to do this. The world out there is not panting after another novelist. We choose it. — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
The writer - more especially the novelist - who has not, at one moment or another, considered his publisher unworthy of him,… — Storm Jameson Copy Share Image
“No matter how much enthusiasm and effort you put into writing, if you totally lack literary talent you can forget about being… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Nicholas Sparks recently went on record as saying he is a greater novelist than Cormac McCarthy. This is true in the same… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
I knew I'd always be a second-rate academic, and I thought, 'Well, I'd rather be a second-rate novelist or even a third-rate… — Sarah Waters Copy Share Image
I'm a white, middle-class male who had a happy childhood in Ohio. The world does not need me to be a novelist. — David Quammen Copy Share Image
The fact is that in this day and age I don't think any novelist can assume that a book will get attention. — Curtis Sittenfeld Copy Share Image
I think back on that day when 16-year-old me scribbled on some silly piece of paper for some long-forgotten high school career-day… — Sarah MacLean Copy Share Image
The only way to be a novelist, to think that you can create something others will give themselves up to for a… — Nicola Griffith Copy Share Image
I think it's restrictive to typecast myself as a novelist because I enjoy other forms of expression. I love literature and I… — Julia Leigh Copy Share Image
A novelist is, like all mortals, more fully at home on the surface of the present than in the ooze of the… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
A novelist has two lives-- a reading and writing life, and a lived life. he or she cannot be understood at all… — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
I'm always determined that as a novelist I'm going to go out there and research my characters very thoroughly before I start… — Chris Cleave Copy Share Image
I have tried very hard as a novelist to say, 'Novels are about individuals and especially larger than life individuals.' — Bharati Mukherjee Copy Share Image
I know that sometimes it happens that a novelist is embarrassed about their early works. For me, it's the opposite: I believe… — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
I'm really lucky in that I can do lots of different things. It must be really hard to just be a poet… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
Because I'm a novelist, I think in terms of structure. The way I keep going is through structure. It's what inspires me… — Jess Walter Copy Share Image
