To what degree are historians chroniclers of the truth and to what degree are they just novelists, frankly? — Peter Morgan Copy Share Image
Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won't either, for solitude will also break you with… — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
Directors who have inspired me include Billy Wilder, Federico Fellini, lngmar Bergman, John Ford, Orson Welles, Werner Herzog, Stanley Kubrick, Alfred Hitchcock,… — David Lynch Copy Share Image
Well I'm not a novelist. I've only written one book and that is a memoir. — Carly Fiorina Copy Share Image
I've always played that edge of fact and fiction. I used to be a filmmaker, and certainly in film that's a line… — Ruth Ozeki Copy Share Image
“But the other Ministers considered that to employ a magician was one thing, novelists were quite another and they would not stoop… — Susanna Clarke Copy Share Image
If the novelist isn't surprised by where his book ends up, he or she probably hasn't written anything worth remembering. — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
I am a huge fan of Alan Furst. Furst is the best in the business--the most talented espionage novelist of our generation. — Vince Flynn Copy Share Image
Really, the novelist has the best casting since he doesn't have to cope with the actors and all the rest. -Alfred Hitchcock — Alfred Hitchcock Copy Share Image
Noir is dead for me because historically, I think it's a simple view. I've taken it as far as it can go.… — James Ellroy Copy Share Image
I had, like any other young novelist, started out by believing the difficult thing was to get published and that, once you… — Mordecai Richler Copy Share Image
Amos Oz is one of the finest novelists of this entire period. MY MICHAEL is a beautiful work of great depth and… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
Novelists are not equipped to make a movie, in my opinion. They make their own movie when they write: they're casting, they're… — John le Carre Copy Share Image
The complexion of a novelist is seldom rosy (Paul Bailey once announced to a heavy-hearted audience of novelists at PEN that we… — Jane Gardam Copy Share Image
Theoretically, we know that the world turns, but in fact we do not notice it, the earth on which we walk does… — Marcel Proust 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
“His head was always in the clouds. 'I'm writing a novel,' he told her. As if that was something to crow about.… — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
Since I became a novelist I have discovered that I am biased. Either I think a new novel is worse than mine… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
The right to life means that a man has the right to support his life by his own work (on any economic… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Horror writers can write about everything in the real world that a mainstream novelist can--plus the supernatural, which is the most fertile… — Bentley Little Copy Share Image
I'm completely surrounded, not only my father, but also my three brothers, and Sergio, my husband, all four of them work in… — Lucia Puenzo Copy Share Image
I think the hardest part of writing is revising. And by that I mean the following: A novelist has to create the… — Chaim Potok Copy Share Image
