Teaching high school was my real training as a novelist: it got me out of my head, and (at least a little)… — Garth Greenwell Copy Share Image
Literary novelists who have a strong handle on plot are often characterized as good vacation reads because they manage to transport you… — Michelle Dean Copy Share Image
“Agenda-driven novelists don’t often want to bother learning the craft of fiction. They’re just dipping into fiction long enough to disguise their… — Jeff Gerke Copy Share Image
How can we expect novelists to be moral, when their trade forces them to treat every end they meet as no more… — Randall Jarrell Copy Share Image
The novelist screws up his courage in order to invest another two or three years in another attempt to float a boat… — Edward Hoagland Copy Share Image
As a novelist, I have a somewhat higher soapbox to stand on than most people do when it comes to talking back… — L. Neil Smith Copy Share Image
Things were easier for the old novelists who saw people all of a piece. Speaking generally, their heroes were good through and… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
When fascism comes to the United States it will be wrapped in the American flag and will claim the name of 100-percent… — Sinclair Lewis Copy Share Image
It sounds schmaltzy to say, but fiction is much more to do with love than people admit or acknowledge. The novelist has… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
My political position springs from my being a novelist. In so far as I am concerned, politics and the novel are an… — Ghassan Kanafani Copy Share Image
Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won't either, for solitude will also break you with… — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
I am persuaded that not a novel in ten thousand is of any use to a child to fit him for life.… — Storm Jameson Copy Share Image
“On some level, most novelists write fiction to create order out of chaos. When you shape a fictional story, you can tie… — Kevin Guilfoile Copy Share Image
It's like a novelist writing far out things. If it makes a point and makes sense, then people like to read that.… — Johnny Cash Copy Share Image
Democracy can hardly be expected to flourish in societies where political and economic power is being progressively concentrated and centralized. But the… — Aldous Huxley 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
Copywriters, journalists, mainstream authors, ghostwriters, bloggers and advertising creatives have as much right to think of themselves as good writers as academics,… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
Actors love to do extreme things, so that is why they become actors; otherwise, they'd be novelists. — Zal Batmanglij Copy Share Image
I saw novelists as being admirable people and I thought... I thought... maybe, one day, I could be one of them. — Michael Palin Copy Share Image
Writing [for the novelist] is not an activity, but a condition. That is why one simply can't resume the work when one… — Robert Musil Copy Share Image
A book of great beauty and manically exquisite insight with a wild and deadly humor . . . The only American novelist… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
A lot of artists start out as failed poets, then move on to being failed short-story writers before they finally break through… — Gary Reilly Copy Share Image
If you need proof of how the oral relates to the written, consider that many great novelists, including Joyce and Hemingway, never… — Frank Delaney Copy Share Image
You get spoiled as a novelist because you get to be the director and the editor, and you play all the parts,… — Jo Nesbo Copy Share Image
Sometimes I wonder why I'm a novelist right now. There is no definite career reason why I became a writer. Something happened,… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Alternate history fascinates me, as it fascinates all novelists, because 'What if?' is the big thing. — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
“I now understand that writing fiction was a seed planted in my soul, though I would not be ready to grow that… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
It is true that novelists are shameless and obey no decent law, and they are not to be trusted on any account,… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
“They are very large in effect, these painters; very little self-conscious; they have smooth broad spaces in their minds where I am… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
If the novelist shares his or her problems with the characters, he or she is able to study his personal unconscious. — Manuel Puig Copy Share Image
I had always thought that the idea of love at first sight was one of those things invented by lady novelists from… — John Perry Barlow Copy Share Image
A whim, a passing mood, readily induces the novelist to move hearth and home elsewhere. He can always plead work as an… — C. S. Forester Copy Share Image
Listening is crucial for any novelist. Stories & ideas abound. We too often talk about ourselves & block out the richness others may offer. — Mark Rubinstein Copy Share Image
Poets think in short lines. Unless you're Samuel Beckett, Twitter might be more difficult for novelists. — Kenneth Goldsmith Copy Share Image
The novelist is the person who spends a lot of his or her day thinking about the human drama and emotional complexity. — Thane Rosenbaum Copy Share Image
The novel is very much alive, indeed. In Toronto at the Sixth Annual International Festival of Authors (October 1985) I listened to… — William Golding Copy Share Image
“But the other Ministers considered that to employ a magician was one thing, novelists were quite another and they would not stoop… — Susanna Clarke Copy Share Image
“Ruth Cole was a novelist; novelists are not at their best when they go off half-cocked. She believed that she would prepare… — John Irving Copy Share Image
I am looking for the novelists whose writing is an extension of their intellect rather than an extension of their neurosis. — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Yeah, I have the detail-obsessed, controlling personality of a novelist, but I somehow ended up writing plays. — Annie Baker Copy Share Image
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