Sometimes I think that novelists suffer from P.C.S.: Perpetual Childhood Syndrome. — Simon Mawer Copy Share Image
Learn to wait; invariably either things will change or your heart will. — Jonathan Carroll Copy Share Image
“Novelists and police-inspectors do not always see eye to eye as regards publicity.” — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
It is not the great temptations that ruin us; it is the little ones. — John William De Forest Copy Share Image
Once upon a time, novelists of the 19th century, such as Charles Dickens, published in serial form. — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
A novelist is an elephant, but an elephant who must pretend to forget. — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
I’ve always thought a novelist only has one character and that is himself or herself. — John Gregory Dunne 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
The idea of being a novelist is really romantic, but it's kind of the same as being president of the United States… — Richard Paul Evans 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
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
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
I have argued about the future of fiction with jaded novelists, far-seeing postmodernists, technologists, television critics. The argument that future generations will… — Russell Smith Copy Share Image
Amos Oz is one of the finest novelists of this entire period. MY MICHAEL is a beautiful work of great depth and… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
People really want to believe that there is no fiction. I think they find it much easier to imagine that novelists are… — Mark Leyner Copy Share Image
The preoccupation of the novelist: how to capture the living moments, was answered by the diary. You write while you are alive.… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
I see myself as a novelist, period. I mean, the material I work with is what is classified as science fiction and… — Roger Zelazny Copy Share Image
I think it's also the case that I'm not as widely travelled, or as well-educated in history, as most of the other… — Jonathan Coe Copy Share Image
I became a virtuoso of deceit. It wasn't pleasure I was after, it was knowledge. I consulted the strictest moralists to learn… — Christopher Hampton Copy Share Image
I don't believe in the meteoric culture of anxiety, generally. Obviously, some people have it, some people are crippled by it, but… — Andrew O'Hagan Copy Share Image
We must take our sentences seriously, which means we must understand them philosophically, and the odd thing is that the few who… — William H. Gass Copy Share Image
“He had entered another imaginative world, one connected to the beginning of his life as a writer, to the Napoleonic world that… — Fred Kaplan Copy Share Image
I learned early on that war forms its own culture. The rush of battle is a potent and often lethal addiction, for… — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
If you think reading a book is hard, you should try writing one. Because it's even harder. It's still not as hard… — Erik Wolpaw Copy Share Image
“I don’t know about lying for novelists. I look at some of the great novelists, and I think the reason they are… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
“Our great novelists, though experts on indignity and assault, on loneliness and terror, tend to avoid treating the passionate encounter of a… — Leslie Fiedler Copy Share Image
Political thriller? International thriller? Financial thriller? Whatever you call it, The Ascendant is smart, edgy, fast-paced storytelling at its best. Its unlikely… — Alafair Burke Copy Share Image
There are novels that end well, but in between there are human beings acting like human beings. And human beings are not… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
