“The great novelists are philosophical novelists--that is, the contrary of thesis-writers.” — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Drawing Dead is a brilliant noir from one of Australia's most exciting new novelists. — Adrian McKinty Copy Share Image
The great thing about being a novelist is that you organize your own day. — Sophie Kinsella Copy Share Image
Henry James claim that if you want to be a novelist you should be somebody on whom nothing is lost. — Ben Lerner Copy Share Image
The essayist has to follow a certain intellectual pattern. The novelist has the advantage of using fantasy, of being subjective. — Manuel Puig Copy Share Image
There is something so deeply visceral about libraries for me-rooms and rooms full of people dreaming and remembering. — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
The ancient historians gave us delightful fiction in the form of fact; the modern novelist presents us with dull facts under the… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The thing I love about Dickens is the omniscient, omnipotent narrator, and the great confidence of the narrator, which marks 19th-century novelists… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
I can't promise that every child with learning differences will become a novelist, but I do think all children can become lifelong… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
The best novelist of my generation is an Italian living in Paris, still working and improving - Italo Calvino. — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
I grew up as a reader as well as a movie-lover, so many of the novelists I admired - and so many… — Curtis Hanson Copy Share Image
I've been many kinds of writers in my career: novelist; tele-playwright; short story writer. As a high-school student, I wrote amateur pieces… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
To call Clive Barker a 'horror novelist' would be like calling the Beatles a 'garage band'... He is the great imaginer of… — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
“The genres, it is thought, have other designs on us. They want to entertain, as opposed to rubbing our noses in the… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
In journalism just one fact that is false prejudices the entire work. In contrast, in fiction one single fact that is true… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
When I began to read as an adult, I read almost exclusively novelists of a generation back. I did the Russians, then… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
I write about life as it exists within houses and on the streets. And there's nothing, hopefully, in any of my characterizations… — Richard Grossman Copy Share Image
As a novelist, you could say that I am dreaming while I am awake, and every day I can continue with yesterday's… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Language leads a double life - and so does the novelist. You chat with family and friends, you attend to your correspondence,… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
My grandmother's first husband was a spiritualist medium. What fascinates me about that is the balance between conviction and sincerity and trickery,… — Pat Barker Copy Share Image
All kinds of mysterious phenomena exist in this world, but answers to most of them have come with advances in scientific knowledge.… — Mo Yan Copy Share Image
I don’t think ‘science fiction’ is a very good name for it, but it’s the name that we’ve got. It is different… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
The point I would make is that the novelist and the historian are seeking the same thing: the truth – not a… — Shelby Foote Copy Share Image
Artists are just entrepreneurs. It's up to them to figure out how or if they can make a monetary profit from their… — Stephan Kinsella Copy Share Image
My only passions were books and music. As you might guess, I led a lonely life… Not that I knew what I… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Sometimes I think some of my fellow novelists who have not worked in television and film are very naive about this process.… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
“ROBERT MASELLO is the author of many previous works of fiction and nonfiction, most recently the novels Blood and Ice and The… — Robert Masello Copy Share Image
Time passes, as the novelist says. The single most useful trick of fiction for our repair and refreshment: the defeat of time.… — Richard Powers Copy Share Image
