A novelist has mad a fictional representation of life. I doing so, he has revealed to us more significance, it may be,… — Bernard DeVoto Copy Share Image
“Balzac was pretty funny. His philosophy is plain and simple, says basically that pure materialism is a recipe for madness. The only… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
Radio is the medium that most closely approximates the experience of reading. As a novelist, I find it very exciting to be… — Daniel Alarcon Copy Share Image
That's what a good crime novelist - any good novelist - should do with you: play with your perceptions while showing you… — Harlan Coben Copy Share Image
The art of fiction does not begin until the novelist thinks of his story as a matter to be shown, to be… — Percy Lubbock Copy Share Image
I suspect there are two kinds of novelists. Those who have a point of view and have something to say and then… — Neil Gaiman 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
Sometimes I think that novelists suffer from P.C.S.: Perpetual Childhood Syndrome. — Simon Mawer Copy Share Image
A novelist is someone who sits around the house all day in his underwear, trying not to smoke. — Scott Spencer Copy Share Image
The more romance novelists that are out there, making romanticized ideas of vampirism for the kids, the more people want to see… — Corey Feldman Copy Share Image
As a novelist, your impulse is toward multiplicity: multiple voices, multiple perceptions, multiple nuances, the ambiguity in human communication. Fiction really is… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
You tell me your favorite novelists and I'll tell you whom you vote for, or whether you vote at all. — Stephen Vizinczey Copy Share Image
A whim, a passing mood, readily induces the novelist to move hearth and home elsewhere. He can always plead work as an… — C. S. Forester Copy Share Image
The few really great-the major novelists ... are significant in terms of the human awareness they promote; awareness of the possibilities of life. — F. R. Leavis 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
We're currently living with a generation of established novelists who are embarrassingly out of date with respect to social networking, internet skills,… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
I see myself as a novelist, period. I mean, the material I work with is what is classified as science fiction and… — Roger Zelazny Copy Share Image
The novelist's--any writer's--object is to whittle down his meaning to the exactest and finest possible point. What, of course, isfatal is when… — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
I do not think men have more talent. There are a great many women in the arts; novelists, painters, sculptors, poets-but the… — Dorothy Fields Copy Share Image
My argument against God was that the universe seemed so cruel and unjust. But how had I got this idea of just… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
On lady novelists: As artists they're rot, but as providers they're oil wells; they gush. Norris said she never wrote a story… — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
RICE-WATER, n. A mystic beverage secretly used by our most popular novelists and poets to regulate the imagination and narcotize the conscience. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
“Fueled by my inspiration, I ran across the room to steal the cup of coffee the bookshelf had taken prisoner. Lapping the… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
