If you want to understand human beings, there are plenty of people to go to besides psychologists.... Most of these people are… — Anthony Standen Copy Share Image
Age could not wither nor custom stale her infinite monotony: in fact, neither Age nor Custom could do anything (as they said,… — Randall Jarrell Copy Share Image
When it [truth] emerges it often bears out the saying that 'truth is stranger than fiction.' A novelist has to appear plausible,… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
The fact is that in this day and age I don't think any novelist can assume that a book will get attention. — Curtis Sittenfeld Copy Share Image
I can't promise that every child with learning differences will become a novelist, but I do think all children can become lifelong… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
Not since Lord of the Flies has a novelist written with such perceptiveness about the potential for harm that lurks within the… — Paula Sharp Copy Share Image
Without a doubt, I was born to want to make cinema, but the kind of cinema I want to make is not… — Francis Ford Coppola Copy Share Image
Time passes, as the novelist says. The single most useful trick of fiction for our repair and refreshment: the defeat of time.… — Richard Powers Copy Share Image
I look at some of the great novelists, and I think the reason they are great is that they're telling the truth.… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
If these United States can be called a body, then Kentucky can be called its heart. — Jesse Stuart Copy Share Image
Novelists tend to go off at 70, and I'm in a funk about it, I've got myself into a real paranoid funk… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
In order for a long piece of work to engage a novelist over an extended period of time, it has to deal… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
In writing my historical novels, I have to rely upon my imagination to a great extent. I think of it as 'filling… — Sharon Kay Penman Copy Share Image
I wanted nothing less than to be a fiction writer when I was a kid. If you had told me I would… — Caleb Carr Copy Share Image
That balance between involvement and detachment is what novelists do. It's the ideal relationship between a novelist and a character, I think,… — Pat Barker Copy Share Image
The bad novelist constructs his characters; he directs them and makes them speak. The true novelist listens to them and watches them… — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
The most common human act that writing a novel resembles is lying. The working novelist lies daily, very complexly, and at great… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
For novelists, the imagination is everything. The trick is to guide one's imagination using research. I love using old maps. When I… — Edward Rutherfurd Copy Share Image
I knew Id always be a second-rate academic, and I thought, Well, Id rather be a second-rate novelist or even a third-rate… — Sarah Waters Copy Share Image
Whether you're an unpublished novelist or a sixteen-time New York Times bestselling author, you can always improve your craft. You can always… — Robert Dugoni Copy Share Image
For me, film has been good because I'm able to work at top crack, working at something I love to do, in… — William Monahan Copy Share Image
Novelists have always had complete freedom to pretty much tell their story any way they saw fit. And that's what I'm trying… — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
I'm a novelist at heart. How's that? And that's how I make my living, is I write novels. — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
I am a master of fiction. I am also the greatest crime novelist who ever lived. I am to the crime novel… — James Ellroy Copy Share Image
When, however, one reads of a witch being ducked, of a woman possessed by devils, of a wise woman selling herbs, or… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
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