As a novelist, I'm endlessly fascinated by human behavior and interactions. — Juliet Marillier Copy Share Image
Being an unpublished novelist has about as much social acceptability as being a shopping bag lady. — James Frey Copy Share Image
The next time the novelist rings the bell I will not stir though the meeting-house burn down. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Every novelist should write something for children at least once in his lifetime. — Henryk Sienkiewicz Copy Share Image
As a child I was an inveterate liar. As opposed to now, I am a Novelist. — John Green Copy Share Image
By measuring individual human worth, the novelist reveals the full enormity of the State — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
“Fiction gives us a second chance that life denies us. -Paul Theroux, novelist (b. 1941)” — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
I wanted to write about the Korean War, but I had no entry into it that made the kind of sense it… — Chang-Rae Lee Copy Share Image
“A deed done to others, but for yourself is not a worthy one at all. Instead, place another before you; in this… — Jason W. Blair Copy Share Image
I'm a novelist at heart. My sole intention is to write the best novel possible. I don't think about the film potential… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
A novelist has mad a fictional representation of life. I doing so, he has revealed to us more significance, it may be,… — Bernard DeVoto Copy Share Image
The contemporary American novelist benefits in a way from being ignored. It makes you angrier and makes you want to go into… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
I wouldn't say that I'm a travel novelist, but rather a novelist who travels - and who uses travel as a background… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
“Perhaps a novelist has a greater ability to forget than other men--he has to forget or become sterile. What he forgets is… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
The economy of a novelist is a little like that of a careful housewife who is unwilling to throw away anything that… — Graham Greene 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
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
“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
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
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
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
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
Well, people have been wondering what's going to happen to the novel for two hundred years; its death has been announced many… — Mordecai Richler Copy Share Image
“I think there really is no other way to write a long, serious novel. You work, shelve it for a while, work,… — John Gardner Copy Share Image
“The taste for books was an early one. As a child he was sometimes found at midnight by a page still reading.… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“I've written you sixty-seven love poems. Here’s another one for you. But really, for me. These poems are the candles that I… — Kamand Kojouri 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
“Drama usually bases itself on the bedrock of original sin, whether the writer thinks in theological terms or not. Then, too, any… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
The problems you have as a novelist tend to have to do with making a living and trying to find ways to… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
“Novelists when they write novels tend to take an almost godlike attitude toward their subject, pretending to a total comprehension of the… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
The pull of history has been a strong theme in my life as a novelist. — Anita Shreve Copy Share Image
I started my career as a novelist. 'Veronica Mars' was first imagined as a novel. — Rob Thomas Copy Share Image
