“Nobody ever recommended or even desired that I be a novelist - in fact, some tried to stop me. I had the… — Haruki Murakami 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
They can't yank a novelist like they can a pitcher. A novelist has to go the full nine, even if it kills… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
I don't like to read novels where the novelist tells me what to think about the situation and the characters. I prefer… — Frederick Wiseman Copy Share Image
To be honest, I want readers to be wrung out. As a novelist, I don't have a political agenda or specific philosophy;… — Jillian Medoff Copy Share Image
“She is a tyrant much in the way of a bad novelist, who shapes his characters according to his own ideology or… — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
A great novelist must open the reader's heart, allow the reader to remember the vastness and glory -- and shame and shabbiness… — Carolyn See 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
One's politics are part of one even when one is writing. But if I want to say anything about the state of… — Thomas Mallon Copy Share Image
Back when the concept of organ transplants qualified as science fiction, novelist Maurice Renard wrote a thriller called 'Les Mains d'Orlac.' Call… — Kage Baker Copy Share Image
“The autobiographer, for his part, is imprisoned in his own egotism. He must always be suspect. In contrast with the other two,… — Anthony Powell 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
I use these senses - touch, sight, feel and smell - as triggers that invite readers or propel them into the scene.… — David Morrell Copy Share Image
People in a novel can be understood completely by the reader, if the novelist can be understood completely by the reader, if… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
Every genuinely literary style, from the high authorial voice to Foster Wallace and his footnotes-within-footnotes, requires the reader to see the world… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
People lose it when I say this, but I'm a novelist who doesn't read novels. There are lots of good reasons for… — Karen Traviss Copy Share Image
I'm a natural novelist. I'm interested in the person and the group, and how they mesh. And one of the ways I… — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
I’ve always said to people, "I don’t care what you call me as long as the checks don’t bounce and the family… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
A novelist must preserve a childlike belief in the importance of things which common sense considers of no great consequence. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
As a novelist, I'm incredibly lucky to make a living, but that doesn't mean that I don't lie awake at four o'clock… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
I tried to reject everything I knew as a TV writer when I decided to be a novelist, and the books didn't… — Robert Crais Copy Share Image
“The novelist is condemned to wander all his life. Homeless and blind like Oedipus he wanders until death. And so let us… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
I started my career as an actor, then morphed into a playwright who accidentally became a novelist with my first book 'Fall… — Ann-Marie MacDonald Copy Share Image
“If a novelist were so uncouth and possessed of so little moral sense that he should write of illicit love, his book… — Clyde Brion Davis 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
“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
A novelist should not be too intelligent either, although... he may be permitted to be an intellectual. — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
“The reader may not see [these meanings], but they have their effect on him nonetheless. This is the way the modern novelist… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
To become a novelist, the most crucial thing one must do is read, read and read again - gradually you begin to… — Avi Copy Share Image
Talents of the novelist: ... observation of character, analysis of emotion, people's feelings, personal relations ... — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
And that singular anomaly, the lady novelist-- I don't think she'd be missed--I'm sure she'd not be missed! — W. S. Gilbert Copy Share Image
I think a novelist must be more tender with living or 'real' people. The moral imperative of having been entrusted with their… — Rick Bass Copy Share Image
The novelist is more a marathon runner than long-distance runner and the kind of courage it takes working in such isolation cannot… — Tobsha Learner Copy Share Image
More than anything I am a novelist. But for me, an author's job is not only to create linguistically accomplished works. As… — Orhan Pamuk 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
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
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'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
“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
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