A man I know who writes and aspires to be a novelist does very little reading, and he's not that successful. But… — Robert Cormier Copy Share Image
As you know, I am a novelist, and I really want to write novels. But I knew enough about the Dreyfus case… — Louis Begley Copy Share Image
It seems priggish or pollyannaish to deny that my intention in writing the work was to titillate the nastier propensities of my… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
I don’t think ‘science fiction’ is a very good name for it, but it’s the name that we’ve got. It is different… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
A couple years ago, the novelist Russell Banks told me he was reading the ancient Greek historian Herodotus. I asked why. He… — Richard Russo 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
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
Usually when I drank too much, I could guess why I did so, the objective being to murder a state of consciousness… — Lewis H. Lapham Copy Share Image
The novelist loses, every time. Politics is insidious, the modern conduct of war (from shoulder-launched rockets to drone strikes) is insidious. Someone… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
Lauren Kirshner creates a first-person narrator you never stop rooting for. . . . [Where We Have to Go] highlights Kirshner as… — Zoe Whittall Copy Share Image
Miss Austen had shown the infinite possibilities of ordinary and present things for the novelist. — George Saintsbury Copy Share Image
I was once doing a question and answer period with the novelist Jane Smiley in a bookstore and someone asked us what… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
I reluctantly signed up for a journalism major, thinking I needed a fall-back way to make money should my career as a… — Kevin Maney Copy Share Image
One of the admirable features of British novelists is that they have no scruple about setting their stories in foreign settings with… — James Buchan Copy Share Image
How can we expect novelists to be moral, when their trade forces them to treat every end they meet as no more… — Randall Jarrell Copy Share Image
Charlie Huston, who showran the first season [of Powers], is a novelist, and likes to internalize fiction as a novelist does. — Brian Michael Bendis Copy Share Image
So much of a novelist's writing, as I have said, takes place in the unconscious: in those depths the last word is… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
In terms of style, I think the memoirist should have a novelist's skill and all the elements of a novelist's toolbox. When… — Danielle Trussoni 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
Possibly the Creator did not make the world chiefly for the purpose of providing studies for gifted novelists; but if He had… — Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward Copy Share Image
All good novelists have bad memories. What you remember comes out as journalism; what you forget goes into the compost of the… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
We sometimes forget that human invention can also be a subject of human invention: that might seem a modern notion, or a… — Andrew O'Hagan Copy Share Image
The great thing about being a novelist is that you organize your own day. — Sophie Kinsella Copy Share Image
As a novelist, I'm endlessly fascinated by human behavior and interactions. — Juliet Marillier Copy Share Image
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