Don't give to anyone the power to put you down. Haters are losers pretending to be winners. — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
I guess I've always been an aspiring novelist. I went to Princeton and wrote a novel for my thesis. — Howard Gordon Copy Share Image
The novelist, quite rightly, fears the psychoanalyst as both an enemy and a usurper. — Will Self Copy Share Image
One connection I see between novelists and terrorists is that we both attempt to alter consciousness. — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
It is less the business of the novelist to tell us what happened than to show how it happened. — V. S. Pritchett Copy Share Image
The novelist must be his own most harsh critic and also his own most loving admirer and about both he must say… — Angus Wilson Copy Share Image
“The writing talent of Edinburgh is textured - we have poets, novelists, non-fiction writers, dramatists and more.” — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
I'd defend the right for any novelist to experiment with form or language, but if people don't take to it, don't react… — Graham Joyce 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
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
I've always liked the idea that writing is a form of travel. And I started my writing career as a mystery novelist… — Rick Riordan 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
The best novelist of my generation is an Italian living in Paris, still working and improving - Italo Calvino. — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
And there are two types of stories. One type is one's own story. The other type is telling the stories of others.… — Lee Gutkind 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
I write about life as it exists within houses and on the streets. And there's nothing, hopefully, in any of my characterizations… — Richard Grossman Copy Share Image
Language leads a double life - and so does the novelist. You chat with family and friends, you attend to your correspondence,… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
My grandmother's first husband was a spiritualist medium. What fascinates me about that is the balance between conviction and sincerity and trickery,… — Pat Barker Copy Share Image
I'm a very good storyteller; I have a lot of compassion for people. That's very useful for a novelist. A lot of… — James Patterson Copy Share Image
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
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
“In fact, there is no such thing as character, something fixed and final. The real thing is something that novelists don’t know… — Soseki Natsume Copy Share Image
That perhaps is your task--to find the relation between things that seem incompatible yet have a mysterious affinity, to absorb every experience… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
A man I know who writes and aspires to be a novelist does very little reading, and he's not that successful. But… — Robert Cormier Copy Share Image
It's so easy to get into the same routine. A novel every two years; perhaps, improving technique. But I'm not interested in… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
In overlooking, denying, evading this complexity--which is nothing more than the disquieting complexity of ourselves--we are diminished and we perish; only within… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The syndicates take the strip and sell it to newspapers and split the income with the cartoonists. Syndicates are essentially agents. Now,… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
I believe that all novels, ... deal with character, and that it is to express character – not to preach doctrines, sing… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
There was a time when the average reader read a novel simply for the moral he could get out of it, and… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
As a novelist, I ask of myself only that I tell the truth and that I tell it beautifully. — Taiye Selasi Copy Share Image
I am worrying about my country. I feel I have a responsibility as a novelist to do something. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Great novelists are philosopher novelists - that is, the contrary of thesis-writers. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Life is only limited by our prejudices. Destroy them, and you cease to be at the mercy of yourself. — Mina Loy Copy Share Image
My job as the novelist is to present the whole case, then the reader gets to render her verdict. — Joshua Mohr Copy Share Image
Miss Austen had shown the infinite possibilities of ordinary and present things for the novelist. — George Saintsbury Copy Share Image
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