When men abandon reason, physical force becomes their only means of dealing with one another and of settling disagreements. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
There is only one expert who is qualified to examine the souls and the life of a people and make a valuable… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Things were easier for the old novelists who saw people all of a piece. Speaking generally, their heroes were good through and… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
The novelist is required to open his eyes on the world around him and look. If what he sees is not highly… — Flannery O'Connor 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 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
As a successful romantic novelist - one of my publishers is Mills & Boon - I create the sort of male heroes… — P. C. Cast Copy Share Image
Although some people think I am a romantic novelist I have always thought of myself as a rather gritty radical historian. — Philippa Gregory Copy Share Image
Two things a novelist can do with a hat: Talk through it or pull a rabbit from it. — Peter S. Prescott Copy Share Image
The best novelist of my generation is an Italian living in Paris, still working and improving - Italo Calvino. — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
Today we can say that at last the director writes the film. The image--its plastic composition and the way it is set… — Andre Bazin Copy Share Image
Dickens didn't have access to any other epistemologies other than those prevailing in Britain. But a novelist today cannot plausibly claim ignorance… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
Southerners make good novelists: they have so many stories because they have so much family. — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
There were several points where I would kind of turn to the book and say, "Get thee behind me." I don't think… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
If you are a novelist of a certain type of termperament, then what you really want to do is re-invent the world.… — John Barth Copy Share Image
Thackeray and Balzac will make it possible for our descendants to live over again the England and France of to-day. Seen in… — Philip Gilbert Hamerton Copy Share Image
Avoiding problems you need to face is avoiding the life you need to live. — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
I think I'm someone who can prattle on a long time about something, which serves me well as a novelist, but it's… — Maggie Shipstead Copy Share Image
The novel is a perfect medium for revealing to us the changing rainbow of our living relationships. The novel can help us… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
As a novelist, I mined my history, my family and my memory, but in a very specific way. Writing fiction, I never… — Ayelet Waldman Copy Share Image
My grandmother's first husband was a spiritualist medium. What fascinates me about that is the balance between conviction and sincerity and trickery,… — Pat Barker Copy Share Image
Not all novelists are power-hungry madman. Some are power-hungry madwomen. — Pseudonymous Bosch 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
For a novelist, it’s kind of an onerous burden to represent an entire culture. That said, I’m in a unique position to… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
