The novelist is the person who spends a lot of his or her day thinking about the human drama and emotional complexity. — Thane Rosenbaum Copy Share Image
I think, if you want to grow a novelist, for that person to have a lot of boring time trying to entertain… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
I really think more fledgling novelists - and many current and even established novelists - should get out into the real world… — C. J. Box Copy Share Image
The novelist has more and more to say to readers who have less and less time to read: where to find the… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
But I have seen my obstacles: trivialities, learning and poetry. This last needs explaining: the old artist's readiness to dissolve characters into… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
They (the novelists) became the voice of the citizen against the ubiquitous raison d'état, which reappeared endlessly to justify everything from unjust… — John Ralston Saul Copy Share Image
I do have a very strong sense that most of the terrible things in life happen suddenly and unpredictably, and certainly can… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
A woman filled with faith in the one she loves is the creation of a novelist's imagination. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Science fiction is not predictive; it is descriptive.... Prediction is the business of prophets, clairvoyants, and futurologists. It is not the business… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
It sounds schmaltzy to say, but fiction is much more to do with love than people admit or acknowledge. The novelist has… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
What I was utterly convinced of, and still am, is the idea that the only responsibility the free intellectual has is vis-a-vis… — Tawfiq al-Hakim Copy Share Image
A few of the world's most famous non-American novelists have large followings in the United States, among them Gabriel Garcia Marquez and… — Stephen Kinzer Copy Share Image
People really want to believe that there is no fiction. I think they find it much easier to imagine that novelists are… — Mark Leyner Copy Share Image
Our father the novelist; my husband the poet. He belongs to the ages - just don't catch him at breakfast. Artists, celebrated… — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
I sometimes feel that my goal as a novelist would be to write a novel in which the language was so transparent… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
In America they have to know just what you are-- novelist, poet, playwright... Well, I've been all of them... I think poems… — Robert Penn Warren Copy Share Image
I learned early on that war forms its own culture. The rush of battle is a potent and often lethal addiction, for… — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
I think it's especially important for an editor to say what he's enjoying. For a novelist to be told, midstream, what he's… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
A pornographic novelist is one who exploits the sexual instinct as a prostitute does. A legitimate sex novel elucidates it or brings… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“Novelists and police-inspectors do not always see eye to eye as regards publicity.” — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
Tony Vigorito has grown a cult following of thousands for one reason—his stuff is fun to read... It’s… filled with the freshness… — Kris Saknussemm Copy Share Image
I would rather win souls than be the greatest king or emperor on earth; I would rather win souls than be the… — R. A. Torrey Copy Share Image
There was never a good biography of a good novelist. There couldn't be. He is too many people if he's any good. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
I have argued about the future of fiction with jaded novelists, far-seeing postmodernists, technologists, television critics. The argument that future generations will… — Russell Smith Copy Share Image
The British and American literary worlds operate in an odd kind of symbiosis: our critics think our contemporary novelists are not the… — Will Self Copy Share Image
