The novel, for me, was an accident. I really don't consider myself a novelist. — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
I think, in common with a lot of novelists, I wasn't the most athletic guy at school. — Chris Cleave Copy Share Image
I try very hard to be fair, and I look for ironies. In a way, I live on ironies as a novelist. — Robert Stone Copy Share Image
Human nature provides the lyrics, and we novelists just compose the music. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
That is the dream of all novelists-that one of their characters will become 'somebody.' — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
A woman filled with faith in the one she loves is the creation of a novelist's imagination. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
The real novelist, the perfectly simple human being, could go on, indefinitely imaging. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
I'd defend the right for any novelist to experiment with form or language, but if people don't take to it, don't react… — Graham Joyce Copy Share Image
I think novelists should be disciplined and self-imposed working hours. I work a lot, but I don't feel that I'm working. I… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
I wanted nothing less than to be a fiction writer when I was a kid. If you had told me I would… — Caleb Carr Copy Share Image
As a novelist you have just unlimited budget, total creative control. You really get to have your cake - all the cake… — Naomi Novik Copy Share Image
The novelist must be his own most harsh critic and also his own most loving admirer and about both he must say… — Angus Wilson Copy Share Image
The Electroshock Novelist: The Alluring Bad Boy of Literary England Has Always Been Fascinated by Britain's Dustbin Empire. Now Martin Amis Takes… — Sam Tanenhaus Copy Share Image
“The writing talent of Edinburgh is textured - we have poets, novelists, non-fiction writers, dramatists and more.” — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
Canada has one great novelist (Robertson Davies), which means it has one for every twenty-five million citizens - the world's highest ratio. — George Will 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
I hate this word 'graphic novel.' It is a term publishing houses have created for the bourgeois so they wouldn't be ashamed… — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
I tried to make guitars that were close to what my heroes played. That's the way it's done. My experience is that… — Paul Reed Smith Copy Share Image
Writing for the theatre is so different to writing for anything else. Because what you write is eventually going to be spoken.… — Sam Shepard Copy Share Image
I follow the way people change. I follow the way people, who are very antagonized to one another become very close to… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
Novelists get to say plenty in their massive tomes; rock singers only get four-minute songs with two verses and a chorus' worth… — Karan Mahajan Copy Share Image
And when I'd be reporting in Israel, Palestinians would say, the Jews they're not like us, and the Jews would say the… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
“It would have been possible to back out of his engagements by assuming the license of the free artistic spirit, but he… — Ian McEwan Copy Share Image
One realizes that human relationships are the tragic necessity of human life; that they can never be wholly satisfactory, that every ego… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
Science fiction is not predictive; it is descriptive… Prediction is the business of prophets, clairvoyants, and futurologists. It is not the business… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Neanderthal man listened to stories, if one may judge by the shape of his skull. The primitive audience was an audience of… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
The lucidity of the battle narratives, the vigor of the prose, the strong feeling for the men from generals to privates who… — Walter Millis Copy Share Image
Screenwriting is a terrible way to make a living and I always try to talk anyone out of it. Until you sit… — Amy Holden Jones Copy Share Image
“Novelists congratulate themselves on their creation of this kind of “character” or that kind of “character,” and readers pretend to talk knowingly… — Sōseki Natsume Copy Share Image
“In theory one is aware that the earth revolves, but in practice one does not perceive it, the ground upon which one… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
For a novelist, the gaps in a story are as intriguing as material that still exists. — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
“She'll be an excellent novelist: a monster of self-absorption.” — Lan Samantha Chang Copy Share Image
I'm a novelist, so I can't write about ideas unless they're attached to people. — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
Novelist-Citizen of Two Countries Interpreter of his Generation on both Sides of the Sea. — Henry James Copy Share Image
Some novelists want to give people in history a voice because they have been denied it in the past. — Antony Beevor Copy Share Image
I am not much of a researcher as a novelist; I write mainly from experience. — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
