I couldn't think about novels at all. It seemed the only writing that was appropriate to that horrendous event was journalism, reportage.… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
Thank God for novelists. Thank God there are people willing to write everything down. Otherwise, so much would be forgotten. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
To present a scientific subject in an attractive and stimulating manner is an artistic task, similar to that of a novelist or… — Max Born 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
When you take a child who's hollering like hell, sit him on your knee, and say "once upon a time", you stop… — William Golding Copy Share Image
Kingsley Amis was one of a trio of brilliant comic novelists who made English literature sparkle in the twentieth century. — Russell Baker 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
I tried to make guitars that were close to what my heroes played. That's the way it's done. My experience is that… — Paul Reed Smith Copy Share Image
Coming up with lectures is a huge amount of work. I was willing to do one lecture for Gresham because I was… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
A petty reason perhaps why novelists more and more try to keep a distance from journalists is that novelists are trying to… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
Playing with different genres and perspectives and ways of telling stories is one of the perks of being a novelist, but at… — Linn Ullmann Copy Share Image
Naturally a direct comparison of terrorist and novelist is complete nonsense. But there was once a time when the novelist also had… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
And that singular anomaly, the lady novelist-- I don't think she'd be missed--I'm sure she'd not be missed! — W. S. Gilbert Copy Share Image
I guess I've always been an aspiring novelist. I went to Princeton and wrote a novel for my thesis. — Howard Gordon Copy Share Image
Lawrence Kelter is an exciting new novelist, who reminds me of an early Robert Ludlum. — Nelson DeMille Copy Share Image
Manners are of such great consequence to the novelist that any kind will do. Bad manners are better than no manners at… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
I wrote my first novel in the same conditions as most first novelists - I had a full-time job, I shared an… — Jonathan Dee Copy Share Image
A novelist should make you realize nothing is stable. If you don't believe anything with robustness, you're doing something more radical than… — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
Whether he be an original or a plagiarist, man is the novelist of himself. — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
anything being perceived as being superior takes the noun. And everything that isn't, that's judged to be inferior, requires an adjective. So… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Whatever fame a novelist my attain, it's always kind of an anonymous one. I can go anywhere, and no one knows who… — Jonathan Kellerman Copy Share Image
As a novelist, I suppose I can say that I'm highly articulate. But I know, as a person, in other ways, I'm… — Graham Swift Copy Share Image
