Life is only limited by our prejudices. Destroy them, and you cease to be at the mercy of yourself. — Mina Loy Copy Share Image
For novelists or musicians, if they really want to create something, they need to go downstairs and find a passage to get… — Haruki Murakami 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
The bicycle, the bicycle surely, should always be the vehicle of novelists and poets. — Christopher Morley 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
I only became a novelist because I thought I had missed my chance to become a historian. — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
The biggest book for me, when I was fifteen, was Crime and Punishment, which I read in a kind of fever. When… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
Artists are just entrepreneurs. It's up to them to figure out how or if they can make a monetary profit from their… — Stephan Kinsella Copy Share Image
There are acacias, a graceful species amusingly devitalized by sentimentality, this kind drooping its leaves with the grace of a young widow… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
Readers no longer need novelists to tell us what it's like to cross the world on a ship or fight a war.… — Walter Mosley Copy Share Image
Novelists have to be adept at controlling the flow of information, and, most crucially, they have to be in charge of the… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
America's founding Ideal was the principle of individual rights. Nothing more - and nothing less. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
First-book novelists and storywriters haven't yet failed and so it's easier to publish them - you can gamble on a success. Whereas… — Frederick Busch Copy Share Image
Yes, one uses what one knows, but autobiography means something else. I should never be able to write a real autobiography; I… — Alberto Moravia Copy Share Image
Ashton Ford will come as something of a surprise to those of you who have been with me over the years. This… — Don Pendleton Copy Share Image
Farber had a huge effect on me as a writer. I don't mean I write like him. Farber is, first of all,… — Greil Marcus Copy Share Image
“A philosopher,' said Mrs. Cantanker, stalking across the study, black heels clicking, ruby silks whispering around her ankles, 'is one who attempts… — Stefan Bachmann Copy Share Image
A short story is a sprint, a novel is a marathon. Sprinters have seconds to get from here to there and then… — Jonathan Carroll Copy Share Image
Novelists may be able to seek advice from readers and editors, but in the end, it is up to them to get… — Jon Weisman Copy Share Image
I'm a very old-fashioned novelist. I write 19th-century novels, where a lot of rules apply. — John Irving Copy Share Image
The novelists of the nineteeth century had all the luck. They had a huge and easily pleased public and the world they… — Susan Ertz Copy Share Image
Mark Twain was a great traveler and he wrote three or four great travel books. I wouldn't say that I'm a travel… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
