I am a master of fiction. I am also the greatest crime novelist who ever lived. I am to the crime novel… — James Ellroy Copy Share Image
“The novelist is condemned to wander all his life. Homeless and blind like Oedipus he wanders until death. And so let us… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
But here's the thing: what you do as a screenwriter is you sell your copyright. As a novelist, as a poet, as… — Beth Henley Copy Share Image
I’ve had the pleasure of hearing The Novelists perform live. They are gifted songwriters and talented musicians with strong lead voices. This… — Daryl Stuermer Copy Share Image
“At the meeting you behaves exactly as Marathi novelists of the last century tell is husbands do in sari shops.” — Sachin Kundalkar Copy Share Image
A great novelist must open the reader's heart, allow the reader to remember the vastness and glory -- and shame and shabbiness… — Carolyn See Copy Share Image
I'm a natural novelist. I'm interested in the person and the group, and how they mesh. And one of the ways I… — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
I have an English literature degree. I wanted to be the next great American novelist from a very early age, but I… — Daniel Suarez Copy Share Image
No one, at any rate no English writer, has written better about childhood than Dickens. In spite of all the knowledge that… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
I plot as I go. Many novelists write an outline that has almost as many pages as their ultimate book. Others knock… — Clive Cussler Copy Share Image
I think it's really boring, from the point of view of the novelist, to write about yourself. Tedious. But that's very hard… — Peter Carey Copy Share Image
Do we value privacy in any real way? Thinking about blogs, Twitter, Facebook, MySpace... all these suggest we value exposure rather more.… — Guy Gavriel Kay Copy Share Image
Novelists are perhaps the last people in the world to be entrusted with opinions. The nature of a novel is that it… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
It is the function of the novelist to reveal the hidden life at its source: to tell us more about Queen Victoria… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
TZETZE (or TSETSE) FLY, n. An African insect ("Glossina morsitans") whose bite is commonly regarded as nature's most efficacious remedy for insomnia,… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
When I was 30 or so - by that time I had become an assistant D.A. - I decided I would try… — William Landay Copy Share Image
Dostoevsky is such a bad writer it is hard to take him seriously as a novelist, though he is a wonderful philosopher. — John Banville Copy Share Image
We may, without offending any laws of good taste, require of an architect, as we do of a novelist, that he should… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Being called a 'bad citizen' is a compliment to a novelist, at least to my mind. That's exactly what we ought to… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
Some of what we read in classical literature is not relative to our condition, but then many women novelists and poets have… — Margaret Drabble Copy Share Image
I’ve always said to people, "I don’t care what you call me as long as the checks don’t bounce and the family… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
The most common human act that writing a novel resembles is lying. The working novelist lies daily, very complexly, and at great… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
I think novelists, when they write their books, end up having occasionally serving a purpose and playing roles that they never really… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
It's the duty of all novelists, all painters, all musicians, all people who try to make art move: to look for something… — Nathalie Sarraute Copy Share Image
Nothing becomes reality in the political life of a nation that was not present in its literature as spirit. — Hugo von Hofmannsthal Copy Share Image
I've always played that edge of fact and fiction. I used to be a filmmaker, and certainly in film that's a line… — Ruth Ozeki Copy Share Image
I know to argue against our online lives seems like the argument of the grumpy, old Luddite novelist, but I really always… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
All the reasons which made the initiation of physical force evil, make the retaliatory use of physical force a moral imperative. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Novelists have to be adept at controlling the flow of information, and, most crucially, they have to be in charge of the… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
As far as he can achieve it, readability is as important for the scientific writer as it is for the novelist. — Donald O. Hebb Copy Share Image
I think the hardest part of writing is revising. And by that I mean the following: A novelist has to create the… — Chaim Potok Copy Share Image
“His head was always in the clouds. 'I'm writing a novel,' he told her. As if that was something to crow about.… — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
I wanted to write about the Korean War, but I had no entry into it that made the kind of sense it… — Chang-Rae Lee Copy Share Image
One of the admirable features of British novelists is that they have no scruple about setting their stories in foreign settings with… — James Buchan Copy Share Image
I think I'm like most novelists in that my books have gotten farther and farther away from autobiography the longer I've been… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
A novelist has mad a fictional representation of life. I doing so, he has revealed to us more significance, it may be,… — Bernard DeVoto Copy Share Image
I'm a novelist at heart. My sole intention is to write the best novel possible. I don't think about the film potential… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
It may happen in the next hundred years that the English novelists of the present day will come to be valued as… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
There is a part of me in every character, naturally. That's why novelists rarely write good autobiographies. You start one and it… — John Dos Passos Copy Share Image
If you write a screenplay that gets circulated, you have a bigger readership than any literary novelist. And it's an educated audience… — William Monahan Copy Share Image
