A novelist is someone who sits around the house all day in his underwear, trying not to smoke. — Scott Spencer Copy Share Image
Actors love to do extreme things, so that is why they become actors; otherwise, they'd be novelists. — Zal Batmanglij Copy Share Image
While the novelist is banging on his typewriter, the poet is watching a fly in the windowpane. — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
Not all novelists are power-hungry madman. Some are power-hungry madwomen. — Pseudonymous Bosch Copy Share Image
The business of the novelist is not to relate great events, but to make small ones interesting. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
America may have great poets and novelists, but she never will have more than one necromancer. — Rebecca Harding Davis Copy Share Image
Some day, the world will discover that, without thought, there can be no love. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
I could see now that a literary education did not fit one for the popular novelist's trade.Once you had started using words… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
Just as we bemoan the passing away of the Great Novel, a great novelist is likely to emerge, perhaps even from Denmark… — J. M. Coetzee Copy Share Image
For novelists, sharply drawn moral conflicts are often useful, and even human and personal disasters can be seen as material. — Justin Cartwright Copy Share Image
Novelists who get shitty about screenwriting invariably can't do it, or they can't hack it in the world of what's really, in… — William Monahan Copy Share Image
Horror writers can write about everything in the real world that a mainstream novelist can--plus the supernatural, which is the most fertile… — Bentley Little Copy Share Image
I always counsel aspiring novelists that passion is the most important quality for a writer to possess - technique can be taught,… — Lisa Kleypas 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
I don't get involved in casting, budgets, location or promotion. Just the script. And, of course, the promotional tour. Which is fine… — Nicholas Sparks 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
The novelist, unlike many of his colleagues, makes up a number of word-masses roughly describing himself (roughly: niceties shallcome later), gives them… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
The illusion of the seventh veil was the illusion that you could get somebody else to do it for you. To think… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
The most striking fault in work by young or beginning novelists, submitted for criticism, is irrelevance--due either to infatuation or indecision. To… — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
One thing I knew about the novelist’s task: when in doubt, write; when empty, write; when afraid, write. Nothing is more impenetrable… — Philip Sington Copy Share Image
It is at least worth arguing that there is a modicum of the creative novelist in all of us, and that this… — Humphrey Bogart Copy Share Image
No novelists any good except me. Sovietski -- yah! Nastikoff -- bah! I spit me of zem all. No novelists anywhere any… — Anonymous 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
“More seriously-and this is probably why there has been a lot of garbage talked about a lost generation-it was easy to see,… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
A friend of mine who writes history books said to me that he thought that the two creatures most to be pitied… — Katherine Paterson 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
a novelist's chief desire is to be as unconscious as possible. He has to induce in himself a state of perpetual lethargy.… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
You do not conceive a novel as easily as you conceive a child, nor even half as easily as you create nonfiction… — Zelda Popkin Copy Share Image
... But all the feelings that evoke in us the joy or the misfortune of a real person are only produced in… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
I think thats the most important job of a novelist - to bring authority to their writing. — Maria Semple Copy Share Image
If you don't care about what people think, you already passed the first step of success. — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Novelist-Citizen of Two Countries Interpreter of his Generation on both Sides of the Sea. — Henry James Copy Share Image
Today there are a lot of novelists who seem to be writing to be reviewed, not read. — Pete Hamill Copy Share Image
That is the dream of all novelists-that one of their characters will become 'somebody.' — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
