A novelist is an elephant, but an elephant who must pretend to forget. — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
I’ve always thought a novelist only has one character and that is himself or herself. — John Gregory Dunne Copy Share Image
For years, I felt I was a novelist, but now I know I can write short fiction. — Jill McCorkle Copy Share Image
I think that's the most important job of a novelist - to bring authority to their writing. — Maria Semple Copy Share Image
The essence of a novelist is to invent things and speak the truth, at the same time. — Jaume Cabre Copy Share Image
“I’m a novelist,” Ruth said. “I can’t help it. My narrative preferences are all I’ve got.” — Ruth Ozeki Copy Share Image
The great thing about being a novelist is that you organize your own day. — Sophie Kinsella Copy Share Image
The novelist must be his own most harsh critic and also his own most loving admirer and about both he must say… — Angus Wilson Copy Share Image
As a novelist you have just unlimited budget, total creative control. You really get to have your cake - all the cake… — Naomi Novik Copy Share Image
With his compulsively slamming lyrics and king-of-the-world delivery, DMX intuitively echoes the existentialism of the projects of the novelist Donald Goines. — Elvis Mitchell Copy Share Image
I'm not sure if you can strive your way into a career as a novelist. You have to write books; there are… — Rachel Kushner Copy Share Image
My mother's husband Harry Bloom was a writer, a novelist, a reporter, and an anti-apartheid activist. — Orlando Bloom Copy Share Image
I'd defend the right for any novelist to experiment with form or language, but if people don't take to it, don't react… — Graham Joyce Copy Share Image
“Do you think that, if I did, I would lead you to the answer inch by inch, like a dramatist or a… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
I always think the novelist should go to the culture's dark places and poke around. Pose a lot of hard questions. — Dana Spiotta Copy Share Image
There are two ways to look at my publishing career. One is that I'm a novelist churning out books, who is eight… — Jeff Kinney Copy Share Image
I am not expecting anyone to feel sorry for me, but when friends ask how it feels to be a debut novelist… — Rachel Joyce Copy Share Image
“On Twitter, people who had read my book followed me and I could see what else they were reading, why they'd liked… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
“Tengo did not know for certain whether he wanted to be a professional novelist, nor was he sure he had the talent… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
A house with any kind of age will have dozens of stories to tell. I suppose if a novelist could live long… — Anita Shreve Copy Share Image
“The question one asks of the young writer who wants to know if he's got what it takes is this: "Is writing… — John Gardner Copy Share Image
It's almost a blessing when we meet people who naturally want to do the sort of things that are in high demand… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
You perhaps know me as a novelist. Literature is one of the arts - in fact, the noblest of the arts. That… — F. Sionil Jose Copy Share Image
“...no mind ever grew fat on a diet of novels. The pleasure which they occasionally offer is far too heavily paid for:… — Elias Canetti Copy Share Image
“I think there really is no other way to write a long, serious novel. You work, shelve it for a while, work,… — John Gardner Copy Share Image
Well, people have been wondering what's going to happen to the novel for two hundred years; its death has been announced many… — Mordecai Richler Copy Share Image
“They know a million tricks, those novelists. Take Doctor Goebbels; that's how he started out, writing fiction. Appeals to the base lusts… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
“The novel should tell the truth, as I see the truth, or as the novelist persuades me to see it. And one… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
“Amanda herself couldn't understand why her writing was so different from her own personality. Her pen seemed to take on a life… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
“A novelist's job is almost to be a stupid as possible, except in the cunning moment when you need to structure something,… — Colm Tóibín Copy Share Image
“What one means by integrity, in the case of the novelist, is the conviction that he gives one that this is the… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
I've always wanted to be a novelist, so I just try to write really great narrative. — Peter Heller Copy Share Image
