The pull of history has been a strong theme in my life as…

I write about life as it exists within houses and on the streets. And there's nothing, hopefully, in any of my characterizations or in…

— Richard Grossman

“The trouble with life (the novelist will feel) is its amorphousness, its ridiculous fluidity. Look at it: thinly plotted, largely themeless, sentimental and ineluctably…

— Martin Amis

History is full of strong, imposing women. Well, my internet history is anyway.

— Nikhil Saluja

A strong theme is always running through a well-told story,

— Andrew Stanton

You know, duality has always been a strong theme throughout 'Venom'-focused stories, whether it's in the comics or in movies, and that's something I…

— Ruben Fleischer

As long as there's a strong theme that I can identify with, that's what makes me interested in writing.

— Bobcat Goldthwait

“I am certain that a novelist is someone who attributes a different reality-value to the characters and events of his story than to those…

— Alain Robbe-Grillet

“What's this "rough life of a novelist" bullshit? You sound like an idiot. You're a writer. At least give yourself better lines.”

— Maki Murakami

As a novelist, I remain interested in the notion of a single reckless act and its consequences.

— Anita Shreve

The novelist's intuition for the sacred differs from the translator's interrogation of the sacred.

— Cynthia Ozick

A novelist should not be too intelligent either, although... he may be permitted to be an intellectual.

— Anthony Burgess

“I have from the first felt sure that the writer, when he sits down to commence his novel, should do so, not because he…

— Anthony Trollope

“I love you so much. Our love is eternal.”

— Santonu Kumar Dhar

“The novelist is like a scout commissioned to go and see what is happening in the depth of the soul. He comes back and…

— Julien Green

“She'll be an excellent novelist: a monster of self-absorption.”

— Lan Samantha Chang