TO ALL THE ambulance drivers firewatchers air-raid wardens nurses canteen workers airplane spotters rescue workers mathematicians vicars vergers shopgirls chorus girls librarians… — Connie Willis Copy Share Image
Never give up on your dream...Perseverance is all important. If you don't have the desire and the belief in yourself to keep… — Tawni O'Dell Copy Share Image
There is a great good in returning to a landscape that has had extraordinary meaning in one's life. It happens that we… — N. Scott Momaday Copy Share Image
In the end, of course, all novelists will be judged by their novels, but let's not forget that we will also need… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
Screenwriting is a terrible way to make a living and I always try to talk anyone out of it. Until you sit… — Amy Holden Jones Copy Share Image
The novelist teaches the reader to comprehend the world as a question, — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
The man without a purpose is a man who drifts at the mercy of random feelings or unidentified urges and is capable… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The wisdom of literature is quite antithetical to having opinions. 'Nothing is my last word about anything,' said Henry James. Furnishing opinions,… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
I want to be a popular novelist who's also serious, or a serious novelist who's also very accessible. — Douglas Kennedy Copy Share Image
I always think the novelist should go to the culture's dark places and poke around. Pose a lot of hard questions. — Dana Spiotta Copy Share Image
“The novelist is condemned to wander all his life. Homeless and blind like Oedipus he wanders until death. And so let us… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
Everyone assumes that novelists are smarter and more interesting. They're generally smarter and more interesting, but they're often very short. So it… — Liev Schreiber Copy Share Image
I sometimes think novelists write about sex in order to avoid boring themselves to death. — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
I'm a novelist, I'm not an activist. I'm not a non-fiction writer, I'm not a journalist. I'm not a foodie, I'm not… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
As a novelist, you could say that I am dreaming while I am awake, and every day I can continue with yesterday's… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I'm not a philosopher. I am the next thing to a jock, which is a novelist. — Frederick Busch Copy Share Image
Because I'm a novelist, I think in terms of structure. The way I keep going is through structure. It's what inspires me… — Jess Walter Copy Share Image
No matter how little a man has he will find that he will always settle for less. — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
To describe our growing up in the lowcountry of South Carolina, I would have to take you to the marsh on a… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
All novelists should live in two different worlds: a real one and an unreal one. — John Fowles Copy Share Image
I always say that if you're a novelist, the challenge is not writing what you think ought to happen, but trying in… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
There are so many other people involved in the making of a play or a television series or whatever... even if you're… — Peter Morgan Copy Share Image
The painter paints, the musician makes music, the novelist writes novels. But I believe that we all have some influence, not because… — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
