Novelists Quotes · Page 13

Christianity does not involve the belief that all things were made for man. it does involve the belief that god loves man…

— C. S. Lewis

I'd defend the right for any novelist to experiment with form or language, but if people don't take to it, don't react…

— Graham Joyce

It is not the great temptations that ruin us; it is the little ones.

— John William De Forest

I'm not a reader of young adult fiction for the simple reason that these novelists are writing for adolescents, so they are…

— Robert Cormier

The Novelist, afraid his ideas may be foolish, slyly puts them in the mouth of some other fool and reserves the right…

— Diane Johnson

If you think reading a book is hard, you should try writing one. Because it's even harder. It's still not as hard…

— Erik Wolpaw

The object of the novelist is to keep the reader entirely oblivious of the fact that the author exists - even of…

— Ford Madox Ford

Learn to wait; invariably either things will change or your heart will.

— Jonathan Carroll

Copywriters, journalists, mainstream authors, ghostwriters, bloggers and advertising creatives have as much right to think of themselves as good writers as academics,…

— Sara Sheridan

All novelists must form their personal pacts in some way with the slowness of their craft. There are some who demand of…

— Graham Swift

I think a novelist must be more tender with living or 'real' people. The moral imperative of having been entrusted with their…

— Rick Bass

I've been working hard on [Ulysses] all day," said Joyce. Does that mean that you have written a great deal?" I said.…

— James Joyce

No one, at any rate no English writer, has written better about childhood than Dickens. In spite of all the knowledge that…

— George Orwell

When you get inside a literary novel you feel that the author, more often than not, just doesn't know enough about things.…

— Peter York

I don't mind when people are telling me about their 1971 Firebird, but it's the same thing as people telling me about…

— Jonny Greenwood

Writing tends to be very deliberate. A novelist could probably run a military campaign with some success. They could certainly run a…

— Colm Toibin

“At the meeting you behaves exactly as Marathi novelists of the last century tell is husbands do in sari shops.”

— Sachin Kundalkar

I'm a novelist. I think fiction is important or I wouldn't be doing it, but most of it's bad.

— Dale Peck

In learning to pay respectful attention to one another and plants and animals, we relearn the acts of empathy, and thus humility…

— William Kittredge

“He had entered another imaginative world, one connected to the beginning of his life as a writer, to the Napoleonic world that…

— Fred Kaplan

Art is for [the Irish] inseparable from artifice: of that, the theatre is the home. Possibly, it was England made me a…

— Elizabeth Bowen

I'm proud to be a crime novelist. What I've chosen is the best way to convey the questions I'm trying to raise.

— George Pelecanos

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

I envied women with signature hair-dos, signature perfumes, signature sign-offs. Novelists who tell Vogue Magazine: “I can’t live without my Smythson notebook,…

— Emma Forrest

Talents of the novelist: ... observation of character, analysis of emotion, people's feelings, personal relations ...

— Virginia Woolf