I have a wonderful editor who believes in fiction and poetry. She herself is a novelist and poet. — Frederick Busch Copy Share Image
I'm working to improve my methods, and every hour I save is an hour added to my life. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Outcasts may grow up to be novelists and filmmakers and computer tycoons, but they will never be the athletic ruling class. — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
For a novelist, a given historic situation is an anthropologic laboratory in which he explores his basic question: What is human existence? — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
I am a huge fan of Alan Furst. Furst is the best in the business--the most talented espionage novelist of our generation. — Vince Flynn Copy Share Image
It's hard for me to believe that a shy, bespectacled college graduate like Brad Meltzer who's a novelist and a father is… — Grant Morrison Copy Share Image
Noir is dead for me because historically, I think it's a simple view. I've taken it as far as it can go.… — James Ellroy Copy Share Image
Stories in which the destruction of society occurs are explorations of social fears and issues that filmmakers, novelists, playwrights, painters have been… — J. J. Abrams Copy Share Image
The novelist works neither to correct nor to condone, not at all to comfort, but to make what's told alive. — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
I couldn't be a novelist for instance. It feels like a very lonely endeavor. I don't know that I could survive the… — Brit Marling Copy Share Image
In Europe, I'm recognized on the street sometimes. And that's cool, because I don't have to live there and deal with it… — George Pelecanos Copy Share Image
The novelist is required to open his eyes on the world around him and look. If what he sees is not highly… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
Even if I couldn't get my early novels published, I could still write. I went into newspapers, where I got paid to… — Linwood Barclay Copy Share Image
I would rather win souls than be the greatest king or emperor on earth; I would rather win souls than be the… — R. A. Torrey Copy Share Image
I had, like any other young novelist, started out by believing the difficult thing was to get published and that, once you… — Mordecai Richler Copy Share Image
My argument against God was that the universe seemed so cruel and unjust. But how had I got this idea of just… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
A novel is based on evidence, + or -x, the unknown quantity being the temperament of the novelist, and the unknown quantity… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
When you take a child who's hollering like hell, sit him on your knee, and say "once upon a time", you stop… — William Golding Copy Share Image
This Vladimir Brusiloff to whom I have referred was the famous Russian novelist. . . . Vladimir specialized in gray studies of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is a great good in returning to a landscape that has had extraordinary meaning in one's life. It happens that we… — N. Scott Momaday Copy Share Image
A critical assumption is sometimes made that [Grisham, Clancey, Crichton & myself] have access to some mystical vulgate that other (and often… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
The complete novelist would come into the world with a catalog of qualities like this. He would own the concentration of a… — Leon Uris Copy Share Image
Comic books themselves are getting more literate. And there are people who are screenwriters and television writers and novelists who are writing… — Stan Lee Copy Share Image
... But all the feelings that evoke in us the joy or the misfortune of a real person are only produced in… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
I just read about John Le Carre, the great spy novelist. He had an absolutely miserable childhood. His mother deserted him when… — James Hillman Copy Share Image
Plato said that poets should be excluded from the ideal republic because they are such liars. I am a poet, and I… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Not all popular novelists are good, but all good novelists are, sooner or later, popular. — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
As a child I was an inveterate liar. As opposed to now, I am a Novelist. — John Green Copy Share Image
Lawrence Kelter is an exciting new novelist, who reminds me of an early Robert Ludlum. — Nelson DeMille Copy Share Image
By measuring individual human worth, the novelist reveals the full enormity of the State — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
Was our life nothing more than a sequence of anonymous screams in a desert of indifferent stars? — Ernesto Sabato Copy Share Image
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