Novels are political not because writers carry party cards -- some do, I do not -- but because good fiction is about… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
I must say a few words about memory. It is full of holes. If you were to lay it out upon a… — David Ebershoff Copy Share Image
Sometimes writing a novel is not unlike having a baby. You'd have to ask a female novelist to compare the pain. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
The problems you have as a novelist tend to have to do with making a living and trying to find ways to… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
Sometimes I think no matter how one is born, no matter how one acts, there is something out of gear with one… — Jessie Redmon Fauset Copy Share Image
When they can't win a debate (can they ever?), leftists deploy what the late novelist/philosopher Ayn Rand called the argument from intimidation.… — Don Feder Copy Share Image
What description of clouds and sunsets was to the old novelist, description of scientific apparatus and methods is to the modern Scientific… — Hugo Gernsback Copy Share Image
All novelists I speak to about how they started usually say it was by pulling up their roots and going to live… — Deborah Moggach Copy Share Image
I assume that - because you can get degrees in journalism from very reputable universities - I assume that people can be… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
I am not much of a researcher as a novelist; I write mainly from experience. — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
Novelists embody plural selves all the time. What are characters, after all, if not other selves? — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
If one lives in a country where racism is held valid and practiced in all ways of life eventually, no matter whether… — Chester Himes Copy Share Image
I read not so long ago about the construction of a large telescope in Chile's Atacama Desert, where rainfall can average a… — Brad Leithauser Copy Share Image
People in a novel can be understood completely by the reader, if the novelist can be understood completely by the reader, if… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
What makes the Southern Poverty Law Center particularly odious is its habit of taking legitimate conservatives and jumbling them with genuine hate… — Don Feder Copy Share Image
There are mythic patterns under all of our lives. Each one of us, often unbeknownst to ourselves, is engaged in a drama… — Deena Metzger Copy Share Image
A novelist has a specific poetic license which also applies to his own life. — Jerzy Kosinski Copy Share Image
Not long ago, a novelist could believe he could have an effect on our consciousness of terror. Today, the men who shape… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
I don't really consider myself a novelist, it just came out purely by accident. — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
Money is the necessity that frees us from necessity. Of all novelists in any country, Trollope best understands the role of money.… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
It's hard for me to believe that a shy, bespectacled college graduate like Brad Meltzer who's a novelist and a father is… — Grant Morrison Copy Share Image
When fascism comes to the United States it will be wrapped in the American flag and will claim the name of 100-percent… — Sinclair Lewis Copy Share Image
Brings [O'Brian's] achievement to a new height....Such is O'Brian's power to possess the imagination that I found I was living in his… — Alan Judd Copy Share Image
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