Two things a novelist can do with a hat: Talk through it or pull a rabbit from it. — Peter S. Prescott Copy Share Image
“Writing - the act of one person giving a piece of their soul to another.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Be proud of your scars. They remind you that you have the will to live. — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
The novelist helps us to see things we might not notice otherwise. — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
Life is too short to be wasted in finding answers. Enjoy the questions. — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
In a rough way the short story writer is to the novelist as a cabinetmaker is to a house carpenter. — Annie Proulx Copy Share Image
Art is not a democracy. People don't get to vote on how it ends. — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
The thing I love about Dickens is the omniscient, omnipotent narrator, and the great confidence of the narrator, which marks 19th-century novelists… — Elizabeth Gilbert 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
I've been many kinds of writers in my career: novelist; tele-playwright; short story writer. As a high-school student, I wrote amateur pieces… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
I grew up as a reader as well as a movie-lover, so many of the novelists I admired - and so many… — Curtis Hanson Copy Share Image
I think novelists perform many useful tasks for their fellow citizens, but one of the most valuable is this: to enable us… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
Most writers are not quick-witted when they talk. Novelists, in particular, drag themselves around in society like gut-shot bears. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
The movies are fun, but I'm a novelist. In many ways, screenwriting is much easier than writing novels. I find screenplays twenty… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
Sigmund Freud was a novelist with a scientific background. He just didn't know he was a novelist. All those damn psychiatrists after… — John Irving Copy Share Image
Michel Houellebecq is the most interesting, provocative and important European novelist of my generation. Period. No one else comes close. He has… — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image
Like most novelists, I like to do exactly the opposite of what I'm told. It's in my nature as a novelist. Novelists… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
If you think reading a book is hard, you should try writing one. Because it's even harder. It's still not as hard… — Erik Wolpaw Copy Share Image
Writing a novel is a very hard thing to do because it covers so long a space of time, and if you… — Maxwell Perkins Copy Share Image
If a novelist has created vivid characters, interesting relationships, settings the reader can easily imagine, and intriguing stories, a screenwriter has loads… — Seth Grahame-Smith Copy Share Image
For me the journey of making a film is a journey of discovery as to what that film is. I mean what… — Mike Leigh 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
It is well to start by distinguishing the few really great - the major novelists who count in the same way as… — F. R. Leavis Copy Share Image
While it might be true that our reality would suggest that more writers would address these elemental issues of modern life -… — Rachel Kushner Copy Share Image
Coming up with lectures is a huge amount of work. I was willing to do one lecture for Gresham because I was… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
I'm completely surrounded, not only my father, but also my three brothers, and Sergio, my husband, all four of them work in… — Lucia Puenzo Copy Share Image
Ashton Ford will come as something of a surprise to those of you who have been with me over the years. This… — Don Pendleton Copy Share Image
“In theory one is aware that the earth revolves, but in practice one does not perceive it, the ground upon which one… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
One realizes that human relationships are the tragic necessity of human life; that they can never be wholly satisfactory, that every ego… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
If human nature does alter it will be because individuals manage to look at themselves in a new way. Here and there… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
Directors who have inspired me include Billy Wilder, Federico Fellini, lngmar Bergman, John Ford, Orson Welles, Werner Herzog, Stanley Kubrick, Alfred Hitchcock,… — David Lynch Copy Share Image
I'm a novelist, that's how I make my livelihood, and I concentrate on the novels. — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
Whether he be an original or a plagiarist, man is the novelist of himself. — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
Work is against human nature. The proof is that it makes us tired. — Michel Tournier Copy Share Image
I realized that my identity as a novelist was private. Only I knew how much of a novelist I was! — Alexander Chee Copy Share Image
I'm a very old-fashioned novelist. I write 19th-century novels, where a lot of rules apply. — John Irving Copy Share Image
Alternate history fascinates me, as it fascinates all novelists, because 'What if?' is the big thing. — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
I only became a novelist because I thought I had missed my chance to become a historian. — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
