The second person to write a story about a young boy and an escaped slave on the Mississippi wasn't a novelist, he… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
The art of fiction does not begin until the novelist thinks of his story as a matter to be shown, to be… — Percy Lubbock Copy Share Image
Our father the novelist; my husband the poet. He belongs to the ages - just don't catch him at breakfast. Artists, celebrated… — Alan Bennett 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
The best of our fiction is by novelists who allow that it is as good as they can give, and the worst… — James M. Barrie Copy Share Image
“Novelists are a special breed. They cannot genuinely trust anything they have not seen with their own eyes or touched with their… — Haruki Murakami 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
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
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 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
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
The novelist loses, every time. Politics is insidious, the modern conduct of war (from shoulder-launched rockets to drone strikes) is insidious. Someone… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
I am, when you stop to think of it, a member of a fairly select group: the final handful of American novelists… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Novelists go about the strenuous business of marrying and burying their people, or else they send them to sea, or to Africa,… — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
There are mythic patterns under all of our lives. Each one of us, often unbeknownst to ourselves, is engaged in a drama… — Deena Metzger Copy Share Image
The Novelist As Teacher”: “I would be quite satisfied if my novels (especially the ones I set in the past) did no… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
Rebecca Goldstein is a rare find among contemporary novelists: she has intellectual muscle as well as a tender emotional reach. — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
I cannot and do not live in the world of discretion, not as a writer, anyway. I would prefer to, I assure… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
A playwright must be his own audience. A novelist may lose his readers for a few pages; a playwright never dares lose… — Terence Rattigan Copy Share Image
Novelists get to direct the perfect films. We get to cast every part. We dress the set exactly as we wish. — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
The novelist must look on humanity without partiality or prejudice. His sympathy, like that of the historian, must be unbounded, and untainted… — Goldwin Smith Copy Share Image
It is part of the novelist's convention not to mention soup and salmon and ducklings, as if soup and salmon and ducklings… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
'Shun security,' I advise aspiring novelists when they complain to me that they are stuck. 'Get disoriented. Maybe your agonizing writing block… — John Burdett Copy Share Image
It may be time for serious literary novelists to take back some of the subject matter we abandoned to hack novelists and… — Scott Spencer Copy Share Image
When I was in fourth grade, a novelist came to talk to my English class. She told us that being an author… — J. Courtney Sullivan Copy Share Image
The novelist does not long to see the lion eat grass. He realizes that one and the same God created the wolf… — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
In the compact between novelist and reader, the novelist promises to lie, and the reader promises to allow it. — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
I have two sisters, and I think siblings are always going to be irresistible for novelists. They have been throughout time and… — Maggie O'Farrell Copy Share Image
I always wanted to be a fiction writer, but I couldn't figure out how you could be a novelist and make any… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
...speaking as a novelist myself, I know that members of our profession live in our imaginations as much or more as we… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
One connection I see between novelists and terrorists is that we both attempt to alter consciousness. — Don DeLillo 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 essay is a wonderful medium. I might mention that some writers who longed to be novelists were better as essayists: Sontag,… — Phillip Lopate Copy Share Image
You have to go out of your way as a suspense novelist to find situations where the protagonists are somewhat helpless and… — Nelson DeMille Copy Share Image
I read a lot of graphic novels - some of my favorites graphic novelists or artists are Rebecca Kraatz, Gabrielle Bell, Graham… — Matthea Harvey Copy Share Image
I write because it gives me the greatest possible artistic pleasure to write. If my work pleases the few I am gratified.… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
For purposes of marketing, writers are designated as poets, novelists, or something else. But writing is about matchmaking, an attempt to marry… — Teju Cole 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
Man is not himself only...He is all that he sees; all that flows to him from a thousand sources...He is the land,… — Mary Hunter Austin Copy Share Image
