In high school, I wanted to be an actress. Until I got to college and took some creative writing courses. Then I… — Meg Cabot Copy Share Image
As an historical novelist - there are few jobs more retrospective. I dumped science at an early age. — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
A historian may be an artist too, and a novelist is a historian, the preserver, the keeper, the expounder, of human experience. — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“I had been given a wonderful opportunity to be a novelist — a chance you just don't get every day.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
When finally I mustered the courage to tell a novelist friend that I was talking to editors about a biography, her reply… — Stacy Schiff Copy Share Image
I like the idea of being a novelist. I picture myself on the coast, the wind in my hair, horses galloping around… — Sara Cox Copy Share Image
I believe, in a funny way, the job of the novelist is to be out there on the fringes and speaking for… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
The biggest book for me, when I was fifteen, was Crime and Punishment, which I read in a kind of fever. When… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
Only a great genius like the Victorian novelist Elizabeth Gaskell can be mother, wife and novelist without solitude. I couldn't write until… — Jane Gardam Copy Share Image
I never thought I would become amazing. I never thought I would be as great as my father. I would like to… — Lucy Hawking Copy Share Image
Dostoevski does not tell you what to think about his legend, but he requires that you think about it. The novelist was… — Suzanne Fields Copy Share Image
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
As a novelist, where do you go to tap into memories, and impressions, and sensations? It's usually, in my experience, your early… — William Boyd Copy Share Image
The first duty of the novelist is to entertain. It is a moral duty. People who read your books are sick, sad,… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
I met, not long ago, a young man who aspired to become a novelist. Knowing that I was in the profession, he… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“Fiction is overrated, Fly. We’ve discussed this. In the time it takes those novelist fuckers to contemplate a few poetic passages, a… — Rawi Hage Copy Share Image
I always say that if you're a novelist, the challenge is not writing what you think ought to happen, but trying in… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“A friend worth knowing tolerates your flaws while a friend worth keeping loves you in spite of them.” — Kathy Reinhart Copy Share Image
The bad novelist constructs his characters; he directs them and makes them speak. The true novelist listens to them and watches them… — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
The novelist can't successfully depict such horrifying reality. But she can, and must, try, to bear witness. There are many ways of… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
The novelist's ambition is not to do something better than his predecessors but to see what they did not see, say what… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“...he was after all, a novelist...and a novelist was simply a fellow who got paid to tell lies. The bigger the lies,… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Writing novels allows the novelist to spend much of his time in a fictional world, which is really the only or at… — Javier Marías Copy Share Image
A movie will do in one second, with one image, what it will take a novelist at least a page to describe. — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
I'm a successful novelist, and I've been a lucky one, so I don't want to cry the poor mouth. Writing has never… — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
A straight writer can write a gay novel and not worry about it, and a gay novelist can write about straight people. — Edmund White Copy Share Image
“Poetry isn’t an island, it is the bridge. Poetry isn’t a ship, it is the lifeboat. Poetry isn’t swimming. Poetry is water.” — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
Charlie Huston, who showran the first season [of Powers], is a novelist, and likes to internalize fiction as a novelist does. — Brian Michael Bendis Copy Share Image
“It is possible to be a great novelist - that is, to render a veracious account of your times - and a… — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
“If you want to see the best novelist, it's yourself. try to write all your stories on a blank sheet of paper… — Miraeniuzz Sanaf Copy Share Image
“The moment I close my eyes, I see you and sleep vanishes. I’m awake the entire night, revisiting our memories together. The… — Santonu Kumar Dhar Copy Share Image
I had a vision of myself as a novelist because that was where I could be serious. I couldn't with music. — Peter Hammill Copy Share Image
There was never a good biography of a good novelist. There couldn't be. He is too many people if he's any good. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Form is, in a way, death. A novelist's obligation is to break free from the form, even though he knows that this… — Karl Ove Knausgaard Copy Share Image
I didn't have a dream of being a press secretary, I had a dream of being a playwright; I had a dream… — Pearl Cleage Copy Share Image
I'm probably the only novelist who has ever written about political fugitives who actually knew a lot about them, had contact with… — Marge Piercy Copy Share Image
“Rich will be my life if I can keep my memories full and brimming, and record them on clear-eyed mornings while I… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
If a novelist tells you something she knows or thinks, and you believe her, that is not because either of you think… — A. S. Byatt Copy Share Image
The Chilean novelist Isabel Allende says there's no such thing as writer's block, you just need to live a bit more. I… — Maggie O'Farrell Copy Share Image
I am not an academic who happens to have written a novel. I am a novelist who happens to be quite good… — A. S. Byatt Copy Share Image
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