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
I write because it gives me the greatest possible artistic pleasure to write. If my work pleases the few I am gratified.… — Oscar Wilde 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
The novelist's ambition is not to do something better than his predecessors but to see what they did not see, say what… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“...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
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
I suspect there are two kinds of novelists. Those who have a point of view and have something to say and then… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The higher processes are all processes of simplification. The novelist must learn to write, and then he must unlearn it; just as… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
We are befouling and destroying our own home, we are committing a slow but accelerating race suicide and life murder - planetary… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Douglas Adams did not enjoy writing, and he enjoyed it less as time went on. He was a bestselling, acclaimed, and much-loved… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
For a novelist, it’s kind of an onerous burden to represent an entire culture. That said, I’m in a unique position to… — Khaled Hosseini 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
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
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
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
The true novelist is one who understands the work as a continuous poem, is a myth-maker, and the wonder of the art… — Muriel Spark Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The lesson you have to learn as novelist is how to be collaborative, and how to say, "I don't get to dictate… — Tom Perrotta Copy Share Image
Novelists have always had complete freedom to pretty much tell their story any way they saw fit. And that's what I'm trying… — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
Poets and novelists and playwrights make themselves, against terrible resistances, give over what the rest of us keep safely locked within our… — Janet Malcolm Copy Share Image
“Flora sighed. It was curious that persons who lived what the novelists call a rich emotional life always seemed to be a… — Stella Gibbons Copy Share Image
Novelists are always resisting autobiographical readings of their work, because they know how false those can be. — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
It is fatal to know too much at the outcome: boredom comes as quickly to the traveler who knows his route as… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
I'm a novelist who read a lot as a kid. When you grow up on books and then grow up to write… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is not the office of a novelist to show us how to behave ourselves; it is not the business of fiction… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
In Hollywood, they think they know it all. You, as a writer, are essentially an outsider. Novelists and short-story writers, especially. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Short-story writing requires an exquisite sense of balance. Novelists, frankly, can get away with more. A novel can have a dull spot… — Lynn Abbey Copy Share Image
Some Pulitzer winners - novelists - have confided to me that getting the prize screwed them up. It messed with their heads.… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
I resist when someone calls me a novelist: it implies some kind of inherent superiority of the novel. I'm not a novelist,… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
Be born anywhere, little embryo novelist, but do not be born under the shadow of a great creed, not under the burden… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
I used to describe myself as a comic novelist, but my concerns seem to have darkened over the past few years. — Tom Perrotta Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
