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
For the first-time novelist you've got to get up at 5:30 in the morning and write until 7, make breakfast and go… — Ridley Pearson 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
Safe from the Neighbors is a novel of unusual richness and depth, one that's as wise about the small shocks within a… — Tom Perrotta Copy Share Image
No one, at any rate no English writer, has written better about childhood than Dickens. In spite of all the knowledge that… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
In a sense, the first (if not necessarily the prime) function of a novelist, of ANY artist, is to entertain. If the… — Brigid Brophy Copy Share Image
I couldn't think about novels at all. It seemed the only writing that was appropriate to that horrendous event was journalism, reportage.… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
You have chosen to risk your lives for the defense of this country. I will not insult you by saying that you… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
I couldn't have been a novelist without being a mother. It gives you a unique witness point of the growth of a… — Carol Shields Copy Share Image
My political position springs from my being a novelist. In so far as I am concerned, politics and the novel are an… — Ghassan Kanafani Copy Share Image
Universities are filled with poets and novelists conducting demure and careful lives in imitation of Eliot and Forster and those others who… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
Novelists don't age as quickly as philosophers, who often face professional senility in their late twenties. — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
Selfish men make the best lovers. They're prepared to invest in the women's pleasures so that they can collect an even bigger… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
No, Paul, I couldn't care less if you tell me made-up stories. Our lies reveal as much about us as our truths.'… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Women need to become literary criminals, break the literary laws and reinvent their own, because the established laws prevent women from presenting… — Kathy Acker Copy Share Image
On lady novelists: As artists they're rot, but as providers they're oil wells; they gush. Norris said she never wrote a story… — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
Novels are fictions and therefore they tell lies, but through those lies every novelist attempts to tell the truth about the world. — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
I am not an academic who happens to have written a novel. I am a novelist who happens to be quite good… — A. S. Byatt Copy Share Image
To survive, each sentence must have, at its heart, a little spark of fire, and this, whatever the risk, the novelist must… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
The difference between a novelist and someone who tinkers around with writing is this: novelists finish their books. — Nancy Etchemendy Copy Share Image
I think of myself as a songwriter, a weaver of story and imagination in a way that a novelist might write a… — PJ Harvey Copy Share Image
Icelanders are grateful to meet foreigners who have heard of their country. And even more grateful to hear someone say it deserves… — Halldór Laxness Copy Share Image
San Francisco has long been a leader in the arts, nurturing generations of painters, sculptors, poets, novelists, playwrights, film-makers, and performing artists… — Gavin Newsom Copy Share Image
I'm probably the only novelist who has ever written about political fugitives who actually knew a lot about them, had contact with… — Marge Piercy Copy Share Image
We all now tell stories by cutting from one dramatic scene to the next, whereas Victorian novelists felt free to write long… — Ken Follett Copy Share Image
Novelists do not write as birds sing, by the push of nature. It is part of the job that there should be… — William Golding Copy Share Image
There are many reasons why novelists write, but they all have one thing in common - a need to create an alternative… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
Truth is the recognition of reality; reason, man's only means of knowledge, is his only standard of truth. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
I became fascinated by the fact that people write to give away rather than write to be read. It's the difference between… — David Suchet Copy Share Image
A movie will do in one second, with one image, what it will take a novelist at least a page to describe. — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
Whoever claims the right to redistribute the wealth produced by others is claiming the right to treat human beings as chattel. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
I've known several spies who have wanted to become novelists. And novelists who became spies, of course. — Christopher Koch Copy Share Image
I'm mostly a novelist these days, but I have written short stories in Fantasy, Science Fiction and horror. — Sarah Zettel Copy Share Image
I couldn't be a novelist for instance. It feels like a very lonely endeavor. I don't know that I could survive the… — Brit Marling Copy Share Image
