I'm a novelist at heart. How's that? And that's how I make my living, is I write novels. — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
... the novelist is bound by the reasonable possibilities, not the probabilities, of his culture. — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
Just as the painter thinks with his brush and paints the novelist thinks with his story. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Novelists have to love humanity to write anything worthwhile. Poets have to love themselves. — Marita Golden Copy Share Image
If you only write when inspired, you may be a fairly decent poet, but you'll never be a novelist. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I believe that only poetry counts ... A great novelist is first of all a great poet. — Francois Mauriac Copy Share Image
Work is against human nature. The proof is that it makes us tired. — Michel Tournier Copy Share Image
I always think the novelist should go to the culture's dark places and poke around. Pose a lot of hard questions. — Dana Spiotta Copy Share Image
Sometimes writing a novel is not unlike having a baby. You'd have to ask a female novelist to compare the pain. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I don't think any novelist should be concerned with literature…literature should be left to essayists. — Jacqueline Susann Copy Share Image
“Passionate attraction to someone of the opposite sex will make a hero or a fool of a novelist each time.” — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
I want to be a popular novelist who's also serious, or a serious novelist who's also very accessible. — Douglas Kennedy Copy Share Image
Just as we bemoan the passing away of the Great Novel, a great novelist is likely to emerge, perhaps even from Denmark… — J. M. Coetzee Copy Share Image
For novelists, sharply drawn moral conflicts are often useful, and even human and personal disasters can be seen as material. — Justin Cartwright Copy Share Image
Sometimes I think no matter how one is born, no matter how one acts, there is something out of gear with one… — Jessie Redmon Fauset Copy Share Image
Maybe someone's who's a different kind of writer [would think otherwise] - someone who'd be just as comfortable writing essays on what… — Chang-Rae Lee Copy Share Image
I was once a graduate student in Victorian literature, and I believe as the Victorian novelists did, that a novel isn't simply… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
I'm not imprisoned in any one medium. In films I use techniques that are not necessarily what other directors attempt. When I… — Philippe Claudel Copy Share Image
If one lives in a country where racism is held valid and practiced in all ways of life eventually, no matter whether… — Chester Himes Copy Share Image
For me the journey of making a film is a journey of discovery as to what that film is. I mean what… — Mike Leigh Copy Share Image
Normal people bring children into the world; we novelists bring books. We are condemned to put our whole lives into them, even… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
Novelists are no more moral or certain than anybody else; we are ideologically adrift, and if we are any good then our… — Andrew O'Hagan Copy Share Image
If a novelist has created vivid characters, interesting relationships, settings the reader can easily imagine, and intriguing stories, a screenwriter has loads… — Seth Grahame-Smith Copy Share Image
I believe that all novels, ... deal with character, and that it is to express character – not to preach doctrines, sing… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
The syndicates take the strip and sell it to newspapers and split the income with the cartoonists. Syndicates are essentially agents. Now,… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
The stupidity of people comes from having an answer for everything. The wisdom of the novel comes from having a question for… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
There was a time when the average reader read a novel simply for the moral he could get out of it, and… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
It's so easy to get into the same routine. A novel every two years; perhaps, improving technique. But I'm not interested in… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
No words can express how much the world owes to sorrow. Most of the Psalms were born in the wilderness. Most of… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
In overlooking, denying, evading this complexity--which is nothing more than the disquieting complexity of ourselves--we are diminished and we perish; only within… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“How do you make a book that anyone will read out of lives as quiet as these? Where are the things that… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
I realized that my identity as a novelist was private. Only I knew how much of a novelist I was! — Alexander Chee Copy Share Image
A novelist has a specific poetic license which also applies to his own life. — Jerzy Kosinski Copy Share Image
I'm a novelist, that's how I make my livelihood, and I concentrate on the novels. — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
For a novelist, it's kind of an onerous burden to represent an entire culture. — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
Whether he be an original or a plagiarist, man is the novelist of himself. — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
I was writing from the time I was 12 years old, but I originally wanted to be a novelist. — Christopher McQuarrie Copy Share Image
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