I think novelists should be disciplined and self-imposed working hours. I work a lot, but I don't feel that I'm working. I… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
Maybe someone's who's a different kind of writer [would think otherwise] - someone who'd be just as comfortable writing essays on what… — Chang-Rae Lee Copy Share Image
I think it's really boring, from the point of view of the novelist, to write about yourself. Tedious. But that's very hard… — Peter Carey Copy Share Image
Novelist time is reptile time; novelists tend to be ruminant and brooding, nursers of ancient grievances, second-guessers, Tuesday afternoon quarterbacks, retrospectators, endlessly,… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
Most good novelists have been women or homosexuals. The novel is the triumphant evolved creation, one increasingly has to think, of these… — Nicholson Baker Copy Share Image
We are befouling and destroying our own home, we are committing a slow but accelerating race suicide and life murder - planetary… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
I'm always determined that as a novelist I'm going to go out there and research my characters very thoroughly before I start… — Chris Cleave Copy Share Image
A book of great beauty and manically exquisite insight with a wild and deadly humor . . . The only American novelist… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
Salvation is an individual relationship with God. I've always considered myself to be a devotional poet, and I consider myself to be… — Richard Grossman Copy Share Image
I have a ways to go as a novelist. But what's great is, well, I frankly enjoyed the solitude. And I enjoyed… — Howard Gordon Copy Share Image
When the Irish novelist John McGahern was a child, his sisters unlaced and removed one of his shoes while he was reading.… — Anne Fadiman Copy Share Image
A novelist who ranks with Proust , Kafka , Musil and his friend James Joyce as one of the enduring pillars of Modernism. — Italo Svevo Copy Share Image
A novelist is on the cusp between someone who knows everything and someone who knows nothing. — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
A novelist must know what his last chapter is going to say and one way or another work toward that last chapter.… — Leon Uris Copy Share Image
Let's put it this way: if you are a novelist, I think you start out with a 20 word idea, and you… — Eric Carle Copy Share Image
A pipe gives a wise man time to think and a fool something to stick in his mouth. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Even when I was living below the poverty line as a novelist, I was still living better than 99.5% of the human… — Jonathan Ames Copy Share Image
He looks like a man.' 'How descriptive,' Susan said in a droll tone. 'Remind me never to advise you to seek work… — Julia Quinn Copy Share Image
..there is need for a person to be generally educated. Otherwise you shrivel up much too soon. Whether this means reading the… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
We Jews, we are the destroyers and will remain the destroyers. Nothing you can do will meet our demands and needs. We… — Maurice Samuel Copy Share Image
In the compact between novelist and reader, the novelist promises to lie, and the reader promises to allow it. — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
Henry James would have been vastly improved as a novelist by a few whiffs of the Chicago stockyard. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
“Passionate attraction to someone of the opposite sex will make a hero or a fool of a novelist each time.” — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
