Avoiding problems you need to face is avoiding the life you need to live. — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“Novelists don’t have answers and ones that do I'm not sure you should trust.” — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
God gets the great stories. Novelists must make do with more mundane fictions. — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
Was our life nothing more than a sequence of anonymous screams in a desert of indifferent stars? — Ernesto Sabato Copy Share Image
You deserve all the good things that happen to you. Don't feel guilty and accept the blessings. — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Not all popular novelists are good, but all good novelists are, sooner or later, popular. — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
A petty reason perhaps why novelists more and more try to keep a distance from journalists is that novelists are trying to… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
Kingsley Amis was one of a trio of brilliant comic novelists who made English literature sparkle in the twentieth century. — Russell Baker Copy Share Image
Of Dickens' style it is impossible to speak in praise. It is jerky, ungrammatical, and created by himself in defiance of rules...… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
I think most novelists I know, certainly including me, feel the novels choose them rather than vice-versa. — Steve Erickson Copy Share Image
All novelists write in a different way, but I always write in longhand and then do two versions of typescript on a… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
The business of the poet and the novelist is to show the sorriness underlying the grandest things and the grandeur underlying the… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
Really, the novelist has the best casting since he doesn't have to cope with the actors and all the rest. -Alfred Hitchcock — Alfred Hitchcock 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
It seems priggish or pollyannaish to deny that my intention in writing the work was to titillate the nastier propensities of my… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
“Our great novelists, though experts on indignity and assault, on loneliness and terror, tend to avoid treating the passionate encounter of a… — Leslie Fiedler 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
Since I was a kid. I had this series by Ballantine Books about the history of World Wars I and II. In… — George Packer Copy Share Image
So far as love or affection is concerned, psychologists have failed in their mission. The little we know about love does not… — Harry Harlow Copy Share Image
God is a novelist. He uses all sorts of literary devices: alliteration, assonance, rhyme, synecdoche, onomatopoeia. But of all of these, His… — Lauren F. Winner 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
To a novelist, fluidity is the ultimate good omen; suddenly difficult problems are simply solved, intractable structural knots loosen themselves, and you… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
Nobody asks you to do this. The world out there is not panting after another novelist. We choose it. — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
I'm working to improve my methods, and every hour I save is an hour added to my life. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Lawrence Kelter is an exciting new novelist, who reminds me of an early Robert Ludlum. — Nelson DeMille Copy Share Image
As a child I was an inveterate liar. As opposed to now, I am a Novelist. — John Green Copy Share Image
I have a wonderful editor who believes in fiction and poetry. She herself is a novelist and poet. — Frederick Busch Copy Share Image
A novelist is on the cusp between someone who knows everything and someone who knows nothing. — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
I'm a novelist. I think fiction is important or I wouldn't be doing it, but most of it's bad. — Dale Peck Copy Share Image
I consider myself foremost a novelist with the intent of crafting stories that people will remember. — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
