If this were fiction, could even the most brilliant novelist contrive to make credible so short a period in which pride had… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“To stomach the world for any prolonged length of time, one must either remain a child or become more than a man” — Michael Lieber Copy Share Image
How can a novelist achieve atonement when with her absolute power of deciding outcomes, she is also god? — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
We shall kill. If you have not killed at least one German a day, you have wasted that day... Do not count… — Ilya Ehrenburg Copy Share Image
To be honest, I want readers to be wrung out. As a novelist, I don't have a political agenda or specific philosophy;… — Jillian Medoff 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
“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
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
I think that if the novel's task is to describe where we find ourselves and how we live now, the novelist must… — Richard Powers Copy Share Image
To a novelist, fluidity is the ultimate good omen; suddenly difficult problems are simply solved, intractable structural knots loosen themselves, and you… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
As a novelist, your impulse is toward multiplicity: multiple voices, multiple perceptions, multiple nuances, the ambiguity in human communication. Fiction really is… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
I don't have doctrinaire views about how we should relate to Asia. But novelists reflect the world they live in, and that… — Christopher Koch Copy Share Image
Children make better readers than adults. They read as carefully as I write; adults read as a means of getting off to… — Daniel Pinkwater Copy Share Image
For a while, when I got out of college, I tried to write fiction. I'd grown up more around novelists, and my… — David Grann Copy Share Image
Radio is the medium that most closely approximates the experience of reading. As a novelist, I find it very exciting to be… — Daniel Alarcon Copy Share Image
There is a continual exchange of ideas between all minds of a generation. Journalists, popular novelists, illustrators, and cartoonists adapt the truths… — Auguste Rodin Copy Share Image
I wanted to write about the Korean War, but I had no entry into it that made the kind of sense it… — Chang-Rae Lee Copy Share Image
A novelist has mad a fictional representation of life. I doing so, he has revealed to us more significance, it may be,… — Bernard DeVoto Copy Share Image
I think I'm like most novelists in that my books have gotten farther and farther away from autobiography the longer I've been… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
Jane Austen was an extraordinary woman; to actually be able to survive as a novelist in those days - unmarried - was… — Julie Walters Copy Share Image
I think a novelist must be more tender with living or 'real' people. The moral imperative of having been entrusted with their… — Rick Bass Copy Share Image
The novelist is more a marathon runner than long-distance runner and the kind of courage it takes working in such isolation cannot… — Tobsha Learner Copy Share Image
One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight, for a very long time, of the shore. — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
“At this rate, he felt, he might even live to see the day when novelists described their characters by some other device… — Edmund Crispin Copy Share Image
There is a part of me in every character, naturally. That's why novelists rarely write good autobiographies. You start one and it… — John Dos Passos Copy Share Image
If you write a screenplay that gets circulated, you have a bigger readership than any literary novelist. And it's an educated audience… — William Monahan 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
Talents of the novelist: ... observation of character, analysis of emotion, people's feelings, personal relations ... — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Money is the necessity that frees us from necessity. Of all novelists in any country, Trollope best understands the role of money.… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
More than anything I am a novelist. But for me, an author's job is not only to create linguistically accomplished works. As… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
Nothing becomes reality in the political life of a nation that was not present in its literature as spirit. — Hugo von Hofmannsthal 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
I think novelists, when they write their books, end up having occasionally serving a purpose and playing roles that they never really… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
It's the duty of all novelists, all painters, all musicians, all people who try to make art move: to look for something… — Nathalie Sarraute Copy Share Image
I know to argue against our online lives seems like the argument of the grumpy, old Luddite novelist, but I really always… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
All the reasons which made the initiation of physical force evil, make the retaliatory use of physical force a moral imperative. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
As far as he can achieve it, readability is as important for the scientific writer as it is for the novelist. — Donald O. Hebb 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
I cling to the basic set of tenets laid out in Tom Wolfe's 'New Journalism' - to get out there like the… — Peter York Copy Share Image
I don't mind when people are telling me about their 1971 Firebird, but it's the same thing as people telling me about… — Jonny Greenwood Copy Share Image
