I don't know if a novelist ever fully detaches him- or herself from what they wrote and the way they wrote it.… — Scott Turow Copy Share Image
I knew I'd always be a second-rate academic, and I thought, 'Well, I'd rather be a second-rate novelist or even a third-rate… — Sarah Waters Copy Share Image
As a novelist, you have to be free. Books can't be an act of filial duty. — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
“Reading poetry is like undressing before a bath. You don't undress out of fear that your clothes will become wet. You undress… — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
I am a novelist. I traffic in subtleties, and my goal in writing a novel is to leave the reader not knowing… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
“I was forced to wander, having no one, forced by my nature to keep wandering because wandering was the only thing that… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
The only way to be a novelist, to think that you can create something others will give themselves up to for a… — Nicola Griffith Copy Share Image
“The thought of the novelist that matters most is the thought that makes him a novelist. The thought of the novelist lies… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
I feel very strongly that where the facts exist, a historical novelist should use them if they're writing about a person who… — Alison Weir Copy Share Image
As the writer of a pseudonymous book, I gave up my own accumulated history as a novelist and became what I had… — Susan Shreve Copy Share Image
“I ran across an excerpt today (in English translation) of some dialogue/narration from the modern popular writer, Paulo Coelho in his book:… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
I always wanted to be a writer, and I did want to be a novelist. In college I took a couple of… — Anne Fadiman Copy Share Image
“As a novelist it is my job to tell stories that inspire and entertain but I am increasingly mindful that many of… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
“Congratulations Tomi Adeyemi on your breakout novel CHILDREN OF BLOOD AND BONE. A project catching fire, such as this one has, is… — A.K. Kuykendall Copy Share Image
A house with any kind of age will have dozens of stories to tell. I suppose if a novelist could live long… — Anita Shreve Copy Share Image
“At the heart of the novelist's craft lies an optimism which thinks that the knowledge we gather from our everyday experience, if… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
I was so sure I wanted to be a novelist. I would spend hours and hours every day writing. Little stories about… — Samantha Shannon Copy Share Image
I have an English literature degree. I wanted to be the next great American novelist from a very early age, but I… — Daniel Suarez Copy Share Image
The novelist's obligation to remake the sensuous texture of a vanished world is also the historian's. The strongest fiction writers often do… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
“You do not need to be temperamental or upset to be a novelist. Don’t embrace the tortured artist rhetoric that any life… — Bryant A. Loney Copy Share Image
I want to be a popular novelist who's also serious, or a serious novelist who's also very accessible. — Douglas Kennedy Copy Share Image
“The lady who works in the grocery store at the corner of my block is called Denise, and she's one of America's… — Dave Gibbons Copy Share Image
