Novelist Quotes · Page 6

I'm a novelist. Fortunately I don't have to rule the world.

— Salman Rushdie

I do think there's some aspect of being a novelist that is a little crazy making.

— Anna Quindlen

A woman filled with faith in the one she loves is the creation of a novelist's imagination.

— Honore de Balzac

For a novelist, the gaps in a story are as intriguing as material that still exists.

— Sara Sheridan

“She'll be an excellent novelist: a monster of self-absorption.”

— Lan Samantha Chang

I'm a novelist, so I can't write about ideas unless they're attached to people.

— Julian Barnes

Novelist-Citizen of Two Countries Interpreter of his Generation on both Sides of the Sea.

— Henry James

“I came to pen another poem for you, but even every unwritten poem is you.”

— Kamand Kojouri

“If you want to see the best novelist, it's yourself. try to write all your stories on a blank sheet of paper…

— Miraeniuzz Sanaf

“The moment I close my eyes, I see you and sleep vanishes. I’m awake the entire night, revisiting our memories together. The…

— Santonu Kumar Dhar

I had a vision of myself as a novelist because that was where I could be serious. I couldn't with music.

— Peter Hammill

Charlie Huston, who showran the first season [of Powers], is a novelist, and likes to internalize fiction as a novelist does.

— Brian Michael Bendis

“It is possible to be a great novelist - that is, to render a veracious account of your times - and a…

— Angela Carter

A straight writer can write a gay novel and not worry about it, and a gay novelist can write about straight people.

— Edmund White

“Poetry isn’t an island, it is the bridge. Poetry isn’t a ship, it is the lifeboat. Poetry isn’t swimming. Poetry is water.”

— Kamand Kojouri

I'm a successful novelist, and I've been a lucky one, so I don't want to cry the poor mouth. Writing has never…

— Richard Flanagan

“A novelist is like a scout commissioned to go and see what is happening in the depth of the soul. He comes…

— Julien Green

“I have from the first felt sure that the writer, when he sits down to commence his novel, should do so, not…

— Anthony Trollope

I see myself as a novelist, period. I mean, the material I work with is what is classified as science fiction and…

— Roger Zelazny

“Liberty of imagination should be the most precious possession of a novelist. To try voluntarily to discover the fettering dogmas of its…

— Joseph Conrad

Research can be a boon to a novelist - there are more things in heaven and Earth than can be dreamt of…

— Michelle Dean

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

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

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

I am not much of a researcher as a novelist; I write mainly from experience.

— Mohsin Hamid

“Sometimes, when inspiration runs dry, I drink classical music until my words spill out.”

— Kamand Kojouri

The biggest downside to being a novelist is writing the novel.

— Jill Barnett

I'm a big, bombastic novelist and thrill-ride guy. I'm never going to win the National Book Award.

— Seth Grahame-Smith

To be a novelist, all I need is a pen and a piece of paper.

— Quentin Tarantino

A novelist can’t be without a kimono and pen!(Shigure)

— Natsuki Takaya

It's a bit unusual that I'm the novelist and the actor who is reading out his own material.

— Pankaj Kapur

The novelist's intuition for the sacred differs from the translator's interrogation of the sacred.

— Cynthia Ozick

The passion for fact in a raw state is a peculiarity of the novelist.

— Mary McCarthy

I'm always accused of being a crime novelist, but I'm not really.

— Lisa Lutz

The business of the novelist is not to relate great events, but to make small ones interesting.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

A downside to being a successful novelist? Wow - I can't imagine one.

— Andrew Sean Greer

I'm a very old-fashioned novelist. I write 19th-century novels, where a lot of rules apply.

— John Irving

A novelist is someone who sits around the house all day in his underwear, trying not to smoke.

— Scott Spencer

“When Communism has been realized, everyone will be a novelist.”

— Mo Yan

“If you hear voices, you’re a lunatic. If you write down what they say, you’re an author.”

— Dani Harper