The higher processes are all processes of simplification. The novelist must learn to write, and then he must unlearn it; just as… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
Normal people bring children into the world; we novelists bring books. We are condemned to put our whole lives into them, even… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
As a novelist, I'm incredibly lucky to make a living, but that doesn't mean that I don't lie awake at four o'clock… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
I was going to be a great woman novelist. Then the war came along and I think it's hard for young people… — Julia Child Copy Share Image
The Novelist As Teacher”: “I would be quite satisfied if my novels (especially the ones I set in the past) did no… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
Universities are filled with poets and novelists conducting demure and careful lives in imitation of Eliot and Forster and those others who… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
The idea of being a novelist is really romantic, but it's kind of the same as being president of the United States… — Richard Paul Evans Copy Share Image
America’s founding ideal was the principle of individual rights. Nothing more-and nothing less. The rest-everything that America achieved, everything she became, everything… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The novelist screws up his courage in order to invest another two or three years in another attempt to float a boat… — Edward Hoagland Copy Share Image
Alternate history fascinates me, as it fascinates all novelists, because 'What if?' is the big thing. — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
Sometimes fear grips me that these fragile moments of life will fade away. It seems that I write against erasure. — Assia Djebar Copy Share Image
Novelist-Citizen of Two Countries Interpreter of his Generation on both Sides of the Sea. — Henry James Copy Share Image
Like every novelist, I fantasise about film. Novelists are not equipped to make a movie, in my opinion. They make their own… — John le Carre Copy Share Image
Novelists don't age as quickly as philosophers, who often face professional senility in their late twenties. — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
You have to go out of your way as a suspense novelist to find situations where the protagonists are somewhat helpless and… — Nelson DeMille Copy Share Image
I just read about John Le Carre, the great spy novelist. He had an absolutely miserable childhood. His mother deserted him when… — James Hillman Copy Share Image
The dominant and most deep-dyed trait of the journalist is his timorousness. Where the novelist fearlessly plunges into the water of self-exposure,… — Janet Malcolm Copy Share Image
That's the most terrible thing about being an author - standing there at your mother's funeral, but you don't switch the author… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
For the first-time novelist you've got to get up at 5:30 in the morning and write until 7, make breakfast and go… — Ridley Pearson Copy Share Image
There's a unique bond of trust between readers and authors that I don't believe exists in any other art form; as a… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
