“...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
Man is not himself only...He is all that he sees; all that flows to him from a thousand sources...He is the land,… — Mary Hunter Austin 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
I think it's really boring, from the point of view of the novelist, to write about yourself. Tedious. But that's very hard… — Peter Carey Copy Share Image
For purposes of marketing, writers are designated as poets, novelists, or something else. But writing is about matchmaking, an attempt to marry… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
As a successful romantic novelist - one of my publishers is Mills & Boon - I create the sort of male heroes… — P. C. Cast 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
Although some people think I am a romantic novelist I have always thought of myself as a rather gritty radical historian. — Philippa Gregory Copy Share Image
Novelists who pretend to understand what keeps them scribbling are really just guessing. A profound, unmet childish need to be acknowledged? Maybe.… — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
Sometimes someone will tell me about an author I've never heard of before and that will send me to that person. That's… — Stephen Dobyns Copy Share Image
I went to an international school in Holland, and I didn't have any memories of growing up in the United States or… — Joseph O'Neill Copy Share Image
When I was 30 or so - by that time I had become an assistant D.A. - I decided I would try… — William Landay Copy Share Image
Mr. Franzen said he and Mr. Wallace, over years of letters and conversations about the ethical role of the novelist, had come… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
In writing my historical novels, I have to rely upon my imagination to a great extent. I think of it as 'filling… — Sharon Kay Penman Copy Share Image
The only excuse for a novelist, aside from the entertainment and vicarious living his books give the people who read them, is… — John Dos Passos Copy Share Image
I’d like to be remembered as someone who used their ability as a novelist or as a dramatist to say the things… — Budd Schulberg Copy Share Image
With a novelist, like a surgeon, you have to get a feeling that you've fallen into good hands - someone from whom… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
Most novelists I know went through a period of intense self-examination and self-loathing after the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center.… — Jay McInerney 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
When you force a man to act against his own choice and judgment, it's his thinking that you want him to suspend. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
It is the function of the novelist to reveal the hidden life at its source: to tell us more about Queen Victoria… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
...speaking as a novelist myself, I know that members of our profession live in our imaginations as much or more as we… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
I always wanted to be a fiction writer, but I couldn't figure out how you could be a novelist and make any… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
'Shun security,' I advise aspiring novelists when they complain to me that they are stuck. 'Get disoriented. Maybe your agonizing writing block… — John Burdett Copy Share Image
When I was in fourth grade, a novelist came to talk to my English class. She told us that being an author… — J. Courtney Sullivan Copy Share Image
In the compact between novelist and reader, the novelist promises to lie, and the reader promises to allow it. — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
Novelists get to direct the perfect films. We get to cast every part. We dress the set exactly as we wish. — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
The novelist must look on humanity without partiality or prejudice. His sympathy, like that of the historian, must be unbounded, and untainted… — Goldwin Smith Copy Share Image
You have to go out of your way as a suspense novelist to find situations where the protagonists are somewhat helpless and… — Nelson DeMille Copy Share Image
I read a lot of graphic novels - some of my favorites graphic novelists or artists are Rebecca Kraatz, Gabrielle Bell, Graham… — Matthea Harvey Copy Share Image
I am the luckiest novelist in the world. I was a first-time novelist who wasn't awash in rejection slips, whose manuscript didn't… — Vikas Swarup Copy Share Image
The essay is a wonderful medium. I might mention that some writers who longed to be novelists were better as essayists: Sontag,… — Phillip Lopate Copy Share Image
“Novelists are a special breed. They cannot genuinely trust anything they have not seen with their own eyes or touched with their… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
The art of fiction does not begin until the novelist thinks of his story as a matter to be shown, to be… — Percy Lubbock Copy Share Image
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
The second person to write a story about a young boy and an escaped slave on the Mississippi wasn't a novelist, he… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
A playwright must be his own audience. A novelist may lose his readers for a few pages; a playwright never dares lose… — Terence Rattigan Copy Share Image
Rebecca Goldstein is a rare find among contemporary novelists: she has intellectual muscle as well as a tender emotional reach. — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
The object of the novelist is to keep the reader entirely oblivious of the fact that the author exists - even of… — Ford Madox Ford Copy Share Image
The businessman who is a novelist is able to drop in on literature and feel no suicidal loss of esteem if the… — V. S. Pritchett Copy Share Image
