Novelists who treat violence and cruelty as something to be exploited for their effect, or to enjoy the pleasure of an evacuation,… — Storm Jameson Copy Share Image
The job of the novelist is to invent: to embroider, to color, to embellish, to entertain, to make things up. The art… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
I'm really influenced by Southern novelists, not many movie people. More like John Faulkner, William Faulkner, Erskine Caldwell, Flannery O'Connor, John Steinbeck,… — Billy Bob Thornton Copy Share Image
The Electroshock Novelist: The Alluring Bad Boy of Literary England Has Always Been Fascinated by Britain's Dustbin Empire. Now Martin Amis Takes… — Sam Tanenhaus Copy Share Image
But the thing is, from the perspective of a novelist there is a brand of lying that feels more honest than the… — Ron Currie Jr Copy Share Image
I cannot and do not live in the world of discretion, not as a writer, anyway. I would prefer to, I assure… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
I hate this word 'graphic novel.' It is a term publishing houses have created for the bourgeois so they wouldn't be ashamed… — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
It's the duty of all novelists, all painters, all musicians, all people who try to make art move: to look for something… — Nathalie Sarraute Copy Share Image
I'm really aware that in fiction, women are pretty much equal. There's a lot of very successful women novelists. Not so much… — Emma Donoghue Copy Share Image
To call Clive Barker a 'horror novelist' would be like calling the Beatles a 'garage band'... He is the great imaginer of… — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
Only a small percentage of novelists, painters, musicians, scientists, anywhere in the world, are talented. But there are many more in Hollywood… — Hortense Powdermaker Copy Share Image
I had thought of writing, actually, and that later on I'd be a novelist. — Francois Truffaut Copy Share Image
A novelist has two lives-- a reading and writing life, and a lived life. he or she cannot be understood at all… — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
I want you to be afraid to turn the page (and to do that) you need to show right from the beginning… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
Once I talked to the inmates of an insane asylum in Hartford. I have talked to idiots a thousand times, but only… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Political thriller? International thriller? Financial thriller? Whatever you call it, The Ascendant is smart, edgy, fast-paced storytelling at its best. Its unlikely… — Alafair Burke Copy Share Image
Some novelists want to give people in history a voice because they have been denied it in the past. — Antony Beevor Copy Share Image
Novelists of a conservative or more purely aesthetic bent hold up better on the surface, but their novels go in and out… — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
Morality in the novel is the trembling instability of the balance. When the novelist puts his thumb in the scale, to pull… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A bonus, being a writer, is that the true-life source material is fabulously bizarre. There's so much corruption, violence and free-floating depravity… — Carl Hiaasen Copy Share Image
As a poet or a novelist or a painter, you are pushing yourself all the time, always looking for a new way… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
There is an enormous pressure placed on gay novelists because they are the only spokespeople. The novelist's first obligation is to be… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
