My whole reputation and creative thought as a novelist is really wrapped around Harry Bosch, so he's near and dear. — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
“The novelist is more like a pregnant woman who delivers her own child unaided. A messy procedure, with lots of groaning.” — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
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A novelist who writes nothing for 10 years finds his reputation rising. Because I keep on producing books they say there must… — J. B. Priestley Copy Share Image
The novelist wants to know how things will turn out; the historian already knows how things turned out, but wants to know… — Michael Korda Copy Share Image
Reading a novel is just a much more involving and intimate experience than the act of watching a film. I mean, you… — Jay McInerney Copy Share Image
Writing [for the novelist] is not an activity, but a condition. That is why one simply can't resume the work when one… — Robert Musil Copy Share Image
I'm a novelist first, and I wrote a bunch of books, and everything I write, I just find people are more interesting… — Jonathan Tropper Copy Share Image
“And once the novelist has brought us to this state, in which, as in all purely mental states, every emotion is multiplied… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
The novelist's--any writer's--object is to whittle down his meaning to the exactest and finest possible point. What, of course, isfatal is when… — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
Like most novelists, I like to do exactly the opposite of what I'm told. It's in my nature as a novelist. Novelists… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Science fiction is a literary field crowded with strong opinions, and no SF novelist delivered himself more memorably of his views -… — Paul Di Filippo Copy Share Image
The trick to being a novelist is to act like an iceberg. Make it seem as if you're displaying only one-tenth of… — Vikram Seth Copy Share Image
The novelist has a responsibility to adhere to the facts as closely as possible, and if they are inconvenient, that's where the… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
The advantage, the luxury, as well as the torment and responsibility of the novelist, is that there is no limit to what… — Henry James Copy Share Image
“I was asked the other day in which era I would choose to live. As a historical novelist, it comes up sometimes.… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
“Characters in novels sometimes radiate more energy, therefore, when we don’t enter their mind. It is one of the techniques a novelist… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
“The novelist makes his statements by selection, and if he is any good, he selects every word for a reason, every detail… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
If you're a novelist, you have sort of themes that run throughout novels. You start a novel and you finish a novel.… — Amos Lee Copy Share Image
I wanted to be a novelist from a very early age - 11 or 12 - but I don't think I ever… — Pat Barker Copy Share Image
“Keep your head down, fingers on the computer and write. Ignore the naysayers, the skeptics, the friends, church patrons or family members… — Sarah Gerdes Copy Share Image
I put it to you that there are no British poets, there are no British novelists. I have heard myself described as… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
When I say that George Eliot has long been my hero, I mean to include those aspects of her thought and temperament… — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
I once did an event with Ian Rankin where he said he didn't really need to do much background research because his… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
“I am, as it were, the created creating—a paradox, for all its rhetorical trappings, at the beating heart of our shared human… — Sol Luckman Copy Share Image
I sometimes feel that my goal as a novelist would be to write a novel in which the language was so transparent… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
Even when I was very small, my mother treated me like a great novelist. She was like: 'Oh, I'm sitting at the… — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
Telling ourselves that fiction is in a sense true and at the same time not true is essential to the art of… — Joanna Scott Copy Share Image
I'm not a twentieth-century novelist, I'm not modern, and certainly not postmodern. I follow the form of the nineteenth-century novel; that was… — John Irving Copy Share Image
I read John Irving's novel 'The World According To Garp' when I was about 14 or 15. It was the first grown-up… — Glen Duncan Copy Share Image
I was once doing a question and answer period with the novelist Jane Smiley in a bookstore and someone asked us what… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
terrorism is interesting to a novelist because it's a crime that's driven by an idea, as opposed to some kind of base… — Karan Mahajan Copy Share Image
I teach in M.F.A. programs now, and I think that's a great way to become a novelist, but I mourn that Pete… — Jess Walter 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 novelist must wrestle with all mysteries and strangeness of life itself, and anyone who dies not wish to accept that grand,… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
“Who is better off? The one who writes to revel in the voluptuousness of the life that surrounds them? Or the one… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
Nobody in France would ever say 'He's a Jewish novelist' or 'She's a black novelist,' even though people do write about those… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
“The novel is a hybrid genre and a large part of its charm arises from the alluvial nature of its materials. There… — Enrique Vila-Matas Copy Share Image
“As it is I'm a dated novelist, whom hardly anybody reads, or if they do, most of them don't understand what I… — Patrick White 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
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