“A novelist is really nothing more than an historian of a people who have no history.” — Federico Gamboa Copy Share Image
“Was the dividing line between life and fiction as hazy for other people as it was for a writer?” — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“Not writing is never an option. This is not words of advice. It just literally never an option!” — Lillian R. Melendez Copy Share Image
The most amazing gift about being a novelist is that you get to pursue your curiosity every day. — Anthony Doerr Copy Share Image
As a novelist, you write about social mores, but not everything can be explained. — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
“An authors publication date never matters, a book not read yet will always be New"...” — Catherine Lyon a Copy Share Image
Form is, in a way, death. A novelist's obligation is to break free from the form, even though he knows that this… — Karl Ove Knausgaard Copy Share Image
I love the novelist's freedom of going into different people's subjectivity and being able to work with them as characters. — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
In high school, I wanted to be an actress. Until I got to college and took some creative writing courses. Then I… — Meg Cabot Copy Share Image
I think, if you want to grow a novelist, for that person to have a lot of boring time trying to entertain… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
Reading a newspaper is like reading someone's letters, as opposed to a biography or a history. The writer really does not know… — A. S. Byatt Copy Share Image
The object of the novelist is to keep the reader entirely oblivious of the fact that the author exists - even of… — Ford Madox Ford Copy Share Image
“Why are you behaving like this? You know how much I love you … and I believe you love me as much,… — santonu Kumar Dhar Copy Share Image
I have that special sort of novelist body of knowledge which is extraordinarily wide and very, very shallow. So I can usually… — Christopher Moore 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
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
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
As a poet or a novelist or a painter, you are pushing yourself all the time, always looking for a new way… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
Well, to be honest I think I'm a better short story writer than a novelist. Novels I find very hard, hours and… — Eric Brown Copy Share Image
I'm a middle-class, middle-brow novelist. And that's it. It amuses me. — Anita Brookner Copy Share Image
I got out of Iowa all set to be a poet and a novelist, but you know what? It's really tough to… — Peter Heller Copy Share Image
I love novels, but I'm not a novelist. I'm just a dramatist, which means I write lines for actors. That's all I… — John Logan Copy Share Image
'The Secret Life of Bees' was my first novel, so I had no process. I was flying by the seat of my… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
I am the luckiest novelist in the world. I was a first-time novelist who wasn't awash in rejection slips, whose manuscript didn't… — Vikas Swarup Copy Share Image
The novelist can't successfully depict such horrifying reality. But she can, and must, try, to bear witness. There are many ways of… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
“...he was after all, a novelist...and a novelist was simply a fellow who got paid to tell lies. The bigger the lies,… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Writing novels allows the novelist to spend much of his time in a fictional world, which is really the only or at… — Javier Marías Copy Share Image
The novelist's ambition is not to do something better than his predecessors but to see what they did not see, say what… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“A friend worth knowing tolerates your flaws while a friend worth keeping loves you in spite of them.” — Kathy Reinhart Copy Share Image
I always say that if you're a novelist, the challenge is not writing what you think ought to happen, but trying in… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The bad novelist constructs his characters; he directs them and makes them speak. The true novelist listens to them and watches them… — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
I like the idea of being a novelist. I picture myself on the coast, the wind in my hair, horses galloping around… — Sara Cox Copy Share Image
The biggest book for me, when I was fifteen, was Crime and Punishment, which I read in a kind of fever. When… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
I believe, in a funny way, the job of the novelist is to be out there on the fringes and speaking for… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
As an historical novelist - there are few jobs more retrospective. I dumped science at an early age. — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
