Hated Quote by A. S. Byatt

Maybe at 20 you can write well, but I don't think you could do what I do. Some things have to happen to you first.

— Ellen Goodman

I am not an academic who happens to have written a novel. I am a novelist who happens to be quite good academically.

— A. S. Byatt

A great novelist must open the reader's heart, allow the reader to remember the vastness and glory -- and shame and shabbiness -- of…

— Carolyn See

“Ruth Cole was a novelist; novelists are not at their best when they go off half-cocked. She believed that she would prepare what she…

— John Irving

I'm a novelist at heart. How's that? And that's how I make my living, is I write novels.

— Nicholas Sparks

The bad novelist constructs his characters; he directs them and makes them speak. The true novelist listens to them and watches them act; he…

— Andre Gide

That balance between involvement and detachment is what novelists do. It's the ideal relationship between a novelist and a character, I think, total involvement…

— Pat Barker

The fact is that in this day and age I don't think any novelist can assume that a book will get attention.

— Curtis Sittenfeld

Whether he be an original or a plagiarist, man is the novelist of himself.

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

A novelist should make you realize nothing is stable. If you don't believe anything with robustness, you're doing something more radical than anything else.

— Howard Jacobson

As an historical novelist – there are few jobs more retrospective.

— Sara Sheridan

And that singular anomaly, the lady novelist-- I don't think she'd be missed--I'm sure she'd not be missed!

— W. S. Gilbert