The first duty of the novelist is to entertain. It is a moral duty. People who read your books are sick, sad,… — Donna Tartt 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
The light that radiates from the great novels time can never dim, for human existence is perpetually being forgotten by man and… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
The business of the poet and the novelist is to show the sorriness underlying the grandest things and the grandeur underlying the… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
Once upon a time, novelists of the 19th century, such as Charles Dickens, published in serial form. — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
And then, as if written by the hand of a bad novelist, an incredible thing happened. — Jonathan Stroud Copy Share Image
Roth Unbound is filled with intelligent readings and smart judgments. Because of the author's sympathy and sharp mind, it offers real insight… — Colm Toibin Copy Share Image
I've always liked the idea that writing is a form of travel. And I started my writing career as a mystery novelist… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
(The new boyfriend) knows I write every day for hours but has no idea that all I’m writing about is me. It… — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
A sacred illness is one that educates us and alters us from the inside out, provides experiences and therefore knowledge that we… — Deena Metzger Copy Share Image
Be proud of your scars. They remind you that you have the will to live. — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
I consider myself foremost a novelist with the intent of crafting stories that people will remember. — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
All novelists write in a different way, but I always write in longhand and then do two versions of typescript on a… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
I feel the responsibility of the novelist is to create a very complex world populated by very complex individuals and to deepen… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
You do not conceive a novel as easily as you conceive a child, nor even half as easily as you create nonfiction… — Zelda Popkin Copy Share Image
I did want to become a novelist, but the program at Waseda was pretty intense in terms of language requirements - two… — Hirokazu Koreeda Copy Share Image
A novelist's characters must be with him as he lies down to sleep, and as he wakes from his dreams. He must… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Some day, the world will discover that, without thought, there can be no love. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
I've known several spies who have wanted to become novelists. And novelists who became spies, of course. — Christopher Koch Copy Share Image
I said it before and I’ll say it again: books are dead, plays are dead, poems are dead: there’s only movies. Music… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
a novelist's chief desire is to be as unconscious as possible. He has to induce in himself a state of perpetual lethargy.… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
The complete novelist would come into the world with a catalog of qualities like this. He would own the concentration of a… — Leon Uris 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 was a novelist before I was a TV screenwriter. Actually, as a kid, I think I'd always wanted to be a… — Ben Richards Copy Share Image
