He was interviewed in the early '60s by a young novelist, Pati Hill. — George Plimpton Copy Share Image
What is the difference between the novelist and the liar? At some moments, I have often wondered. — Amitava Kumar Copy Share Image
I get a lot of energy from making things up, which is why I feel I'm a novelist. — Hisham Matar Copy Share Image
It is less the business of the novelist to tell us what happened than to show how it happened. — V. S. Pritchett Copy Share Image
A novelist is an elephant, but an elephant who must pretend to forget. — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
I’ve always thought a novelist only has one character and that is himself or herself. — John Gregory Dunne Copy Share Image
For years, I felt I was a novelist, but now I know I can write short fiction. — Jill McCorkle 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 had been given a wonderful opportunity to be a novelist — a chance you just don't get every day.” — Haruki Murakami 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
As an historical novelist - there are few jobs more retrospective. I dumped science at an early age. — Sara Sheridan 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
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
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 got out of Iowa all set to be a poet and a novelist, but you know what? It's really tough to… — Peter Heller Copy Share Image
A novelist writes a novel, and people read it. But reading is a solitary act. While it may elicit a varied and… — August Wilson Copy Share Image
“The art lies in setting the inner life into the most violent motion with the smallest possible expenditure of outer life; for… — Arthur Schopenhauer 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
Radio is the medium that most closely approximates the experience of reading. As a novelist, I find it very exciting to be… — Daniel Alarcon Copy Share Image
As a novelist, your impulse is toward multiplicity: multiple voices, multiple perceptions, multiple nuances, the ambiguity in human communication. Fiction really is… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
I think that if the novel's task is to describe where we find ourselves and how we live now, the novelist must… — Richard Powers Copy Share Image
To a novelist, fluidity is the ultimate good omen; suddenly difficult problems are simply solved, intractable structural knots loosen themselves, and you… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
After writing a novel, what is there to say? If a novelist could say it in a maxim, they wouldn't need 120,000… — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
“As a matter of fact I don’t care two pins about accuracy. Who is accurate? Nobody nowadays. If a reporter writes that… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
“Nonetheless, a question remains before us all the same: what is a novelist to do with ordinary, completely "usual" people, and how… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“A poetess is not as selfish as you assume. After months of agonising over her marriage of words—the bride— and spaces—the groom,… — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
“...no mind ever grew fat on a diet of novels. The pleasure which they occasionally offer is far too heavily paid for:… — Elias Canetti 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've always wanted to be a novelist, so I just try to write really great narrative. — Peter Heller Copy Share Image
Henry James claim that if you want to be a novelist you should be somebody on whom nothing is lost. — Ben Lerner Copy Share Image
I think that's the most important job of a novelist - to bring authority to their writing. — Maria Semple Copy Share Image
The essence of a novelist is to invent things and speak the truth, at the same time. — Jaume Cabre Copy Share Image
“I’m a novelist,” Ruth said. “I can’t help it. My narrative preferences are all I’ve got.” — Ruth Ozeki Copy Share Image
The great thing about being a novelist is that you organize your own day. — Sophie Kinsella Copy Share Image
“I'm a novelist. Anything you say can be taken down and used against you in a work of fiction.” — Anne R. Allen Copy Share Image
I didn't intend to be a novelist. I didn't intend to be anything. I thought I'd be a journalist. — Alex Garland Copy Share Image
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