As a novelist, I cannot occupy myself with "characters," or at any rate central ones, who lack panache, in one or another… — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
No, Paul, I couldn't care less if you tell me made-up stories. Our lies reveal as much about us as our truths.'… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think what saved me, as a writer, is that there are really two breaking points in my life. One was when… — Anna Quindlen 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
I think of myself as a songwriter, a weaver of story and imagination in a way that a novelist might write a… — PJ Harvey Copy Share Image
Even in an intensely mediated world, in a world that offers at least the illusion of radical self-invention and radical freedom of… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
One decision I made in writing 'Henry and Clara' was that I would keep Lincoln's appearances and any dialogue by him to… — Thomas Mallon 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
Great sorrow or great joy should bring intense hunger--not abstinence from food, as our novelists will have it. — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
Novelists who pretend to understand what keeps them scribbling are really just guessing. A profound, unmet childish need to be acknowledged? Maybe.… — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
If the rewards to authors go down, simple economics says there will be fewer authors. It's not that people won't burn with… — Scott Turow Copy Share Image
It is however, difficult to make your narratives relative by yourself. A novelists' work is to provide models to make your narratives… — Haruki Murakami 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
Some of what we read in classical literature is not relative to our condition, but then many women novelists and poets have… — Margaret Drabble Copy Share Image
Novelists do not write as birds sing, by the push of nature. It is part of the job that there should be… — William Golding Copy Share Image
When a novelist manages to describe or evoke something you thought or felt, without realizing that other people also found themselves in… — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
To ask a novelist to talk about his novels is like asking somebody to cook about their dancing. — Jim Crace Copy Share Image
"Between a high, solid wall and an egg that breaks against it, I will always stand on the side of the egg."… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Nicholas Sparks recently went on record as saying he is a greater novelist than Cormac McCarthy. This is true in the same… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
Americans would have a right to go to war with the Iraqis if we could name one author from Iraq. It disturbs… — Jimmy Santiago Baca Copy Share Image
Most established novelists are writing books informed by experiences gained in their youth. Middle age is not the best time to be… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
I believe that only poetry counts ... A great novelist is first of all a great poet. — Francois Mauriac Copy Share Image
Predictions are uttered by prophets (free of charge); by clairvoyants (who usually charge a fee, and are therefore more honored in their… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Margaret Atwood, the Canadian novelist, once asked a group of women at a university why they felt threatened by men. The women… — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
