I went to an international school in Holland, and I didn't have any memories of growing up in the United States or… — Joseph O'Neill Copy Share Image
And I didn't grow up wanting to be a director. I grew up wanting to be a writer, so for me, that… — David Benioff Copy Share Image
If I actually believed that the progress of human understanding depended on our crop of contemporary novelists, I would shoot myself. — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
But in general, for the purposes of most novelists, the number of objects genuinely necessary for. . .describing a scene will be… — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
Since I was a kid. I had this series by Ballantine Books about the history of World Wars I and II. In… — George Packer Copy Share Image
So far as love or affection is concerned, psychologists have failed in their mission. The little we know about love does not… — Harry Harlow Copy Share Image
The Alexander Technique works... I recommend it enthusiastically to anyone who has neck pains or back pain. — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
A mind attacked and conquered is guided easily away from the paths of its own soul. — Ayi Kwei Armah Copy Share Image
The professions of novelist and journalist are very separate. As a novelist, you are ultimately working for yourself. Yes, you need the… — Jon Weisman Copy Share Image
In overlooking, denying, evading this complexity--which is nothing more than the disquieting complexity of ourselves--we are diminished and we perish; only within… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When young people say I want to be a novelist, I'd say, think very carefully about it. There will be very few… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
The businessman who is a novelist is able to drop in on literature and feel no suicidal loss of esteem if the… — V. S. Pritchett Copy Share Image
Basically, all novelists should want to tell a story, and if they don't want to, they shouldn't be novelists. I think story-telling… — Susan Howatch Copy Share Image
I meet kids now who become novelists, poets, write for the theater and movies, who were simply inspired by what they saw… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
Essential characteristic of the really great novelist: a Christ-like, all-embracing compassion. — Arnold Bennett Copy Share Image
There's a curious knot that binds novelists and terrorists...Years ago I used to think it was possible for a novelist to alter… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
You need three things to become a successful novelist: talent, luck and discipline. Discipline is the one element of those three things… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
Today there are a lot of novelists who seem to be writing to be reviewed, not read. — Pete Hamill Copy Share Image
Whenever I become discouraged (which is on alternate Tuesdays, between three and four) I lift my spirits by remembering: The artists are… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
Before I became a suspense novelist, I wrote romantic suspense as Alicia Scott. — Lisa Gardner Copy Share Image
Poets think in short lines. Unless you're Samuel Beckett, Twitter might be more difficult for novelists. — Kenneth Goldsmith Copy Share Image
I wouldn't care to speculate about what it is in Westlake's psyche that makes him so good at writing about Parker, much… — Terry Teachout Copy Share Image
... But all the feelings that evoke in us the joy or the misfortune of a real person are only produced in… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Being a novelist is hard for anyone - male or female. You don't get to quit your day job. — Jennifer Weiner Copy Share Image
