I think that if Mozart were alive today and decided to…

Before I was 5, I did have a lot of time on my hands. I had no job and really no career, and I…

— Wallace Shawn

When I hear music I want to engage in it. Even if I engage in it very quickly and turn it off in my…

— Thomas Hampson

I'm not a culture snob. So while, of course, I think the Mozart 'Requiem' or, say, Beethoven's 'Ninth' are some of the greatest works…

— Eric Whitacre

I think Mozart, with all his impatience in writing, would have loved it. It would have allowed him to write twice as much. He…

— Michael Giacchino

I think Mozart, like you, is an example of someone who has the gods moving through him, and his religion was creation.

— Hubert Selby, Jr

I think if I was interested in writing on my own, I would be a novelist - then you could write about yourself, and…

— Zal Batmanglij

I think it's really boring, from the point of view of the novelist, to write about yourself. Tedious. But that's very hard to explain…

— Peter Carey

It's almost a sort of fairy story tale, just what a novelist would write about a discovery.

— Charles Hard Townes

I'm not sure if you can strive your way into a career as a novelist. You have to write books; there are no short…

— Rachel Kushner

I'm a novelist, so I can't write about ideas unless they're attached to people.

— Julian Barnes

As both an essayist and science fiction and fantasy novelist, I write about and for the future. I talk about the past to remind…

— Kameron Hurley

I'm a very old-fashioned novelist. I write 19th-century novels, where a lot of rules apply.

— John Irving

As a novelist, you write about social mores, but not everything can be explained.

— Elif Batuman

I think of myself as a songwriter, a weaver of story and imagination in a way that a novelist might write a book.

— PJ Harvey

Every novelist should write something for children at least once in his lifetime.

— Henryk Sienkiewicz