The job of the novelist is to invent: to embroider, to…

The job of the novelist is to invent: to embroider, to color, to embellish, to make things up.

— Donna Tartt

I believe, in a funny way, the job of the novelist is to be out there on the fringes and speaking for an experience…

— Donna Tartt

I think that's the most important job of a novelist - to bring authority to their writing.

— Maria Semple

The essence of a novelist is to invent things and speak the truth, at the same time.

— Jaume Cabre

A poet or novelist will invent interruptions to avoid long consecutive days at the ordained page; and of these the most pernicious are other…

— Shirley Hazzard

“What I like about the job of being a novelist, and at the same time what I find so exhausting about it, is that…

— Ann Patchett

It is the job of the novelist to touch the reader.

— Elizabeth George

I think thats the most important job of a novelist - to bring authority to their writing.

— Maria Semple

My job as the novelist is to present the whole case, then the reader gets to render her verdict.

— Joshua Mohr

The first duty of the novelist is to entertain. It is a moral duty. People who read your books are sick, sad, traveling, in…

— Donna Tartt

'The New Yorker' didn't invent the magazine cartoon, but it did really establish it.

— Robert Mankoff

You can't invent something you have no epistemological access to. In a way, it's all recombination.

— Elif Batuman

“Being a pioneer can be damn lonely, too early, no money, tough, endless, stupid,” Samwer said. “And that healed us. Since then, we basically…

— Frank Sennett

When you have a large amount of the workforce being laid off, some of them have no other choice but to go out there…

— Daymond John

My wish for humanity is to invent a way to communicate between us and whatever comes next. And in the end that we the…

— Sugata Mitra