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
Human nature provides the lyrics, and we novelists just compose the music. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
I try very hard to be fair, and I look for ironies. In a way, I live on ironies as a novelist. — Robert Stone Copy Share Image
In a certain way, novelists become unacknowledged historians, because we talk about small, tiny, little anonymous moments that won't necessarily make it… — Colum McCann 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
Novelists are people who have discovered that they can dampen their neuroses by writing make-believe. We will keep on doing that no… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
The memoirist, like the poet and the novelist, must engage the world, because engagement makes experience, experience makes wisdom, and finally it's… — Vivian Gornick Copy Share Image
The greatest benefit we owe to the artist, whether painter, poet, or novelist, is the extension of our sympathies. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
The Novelist, afraid his ideas may be foolish, slyly puts them in the mouth of some other fool and reserves the right… — Diane Johnson Copy Share Image
“Passionate attraction to someone of the opposite sex will make a hero or a fool of a novelist each time.” — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
“One must not put trust in novelists, Beth; they create worlds to fit their own needs and drive their characters mad in… — Mary Robinette Kowal 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
Show me a novelist – or, indeed, a reader – who wasn’t a socially awkward, self-conscious adolescent, prone to clumsiness and excessive… — Charlotte Mendelson Copy Share Image
The professions of novelist and journalist are very separate. As a novelist, you are ultimately working for yourself. Yes, you need the… — Jon Weisman Copy Share Image
Every genuinely literary style, from the high authorial voice to Foster Wallace and his footnotes-within-footnotes, requires the reader to see the world… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
As you know, I am a novelist, and I really want to write novels. But I knew enough about the Dreyfus case… — Louis Begley Copy Share Image
Things seem to be at a boiling point all the time. In fact, it has been that way my whole life. I… — George Pelecanos Copy Share Image
I don't know who said that novelists read the novels of others only to figure out how they are written. I believe… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
My greatest fear is feeling like a professional novelist. Somebody who creates characters, who sits down and has pieces of paper taped… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
I think all those years that I spent as a nurse, from the age of seventeen, just allowed me an insight into… — Christie Watson 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
Comic books themselves are getting more literate. And there are people who are screenwriters and television writers and novelists who are writing… — Stan Lee 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 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 complete novelist would come into the world with a catalog of qualities like this. He would own the concentration of a… — Leon Uris Copy Share Image
I'm a novelist, so I can't write about ideas unless they're attached to people. — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
For a novelist, the gaps in a story are as intriguing as material that still exists. — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
“She'll be an excellent novelist: a monster of self-absorption.” — Lan Samantha Chang Copy Share Image
The real novelist, the perfectly simple human being, could go on, indefinitely imaging. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Historians tell the story of the past, novelists the story of the present. — Edmond de Goncourt Copy Share Image
