A mind attacked and conquered is guided easily away from the paths of its own soul. — Ayi Kwei Armah Copy Share Image
Southerners make good novelists: they have so many stories because they have so much family. — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
The historian will tell you what happened. The novelist will tell you what it felt like. — E. L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
I think of a designer as a processor of information — like a scriptwriter or a novelist. — Freeman Thomas Copy Share Image
You could say that all novels are spy novels and all novelists are spy masters. — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
It is better to write a bad first draft than to write no first draft at all. — Will Shetterly Copy Share Image
The second person to write a story about a young boy and an escaped slave on the Mississippi wasn't a novelist, he… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
You have to go out of your way as a suspense novelist to find situations where the protagonists are somewhat helpless and… — Nelson DeMille Copy Share Image
I read a lot of graphic novels - some of my favorites graphic novelists or artists are Rebecca Kraatz, Gabrielle Bell, Graham… — Matthea Harvey Copy Share Image
The essay is a wonderful medium. I might mention that some writers who longed to be novelists were better as essayists: Sontag,… — Phillip Lopate Copy Share Image
I am the luckiest novelist in the world. I was a first-time novelist who wasn't awash in rejection slips, whose manuscript didn't… — Vikas Swarup Copy Share Image
I always wanted to be a fiction writer, but I couldn't figure out how you could be a novelist and make any… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
I have two sisters, and I think siblings are always going to be irresistible for novelists. They have been throughout time and… — Maggie O'Farrell Copy Share Image
...speaking as a novelist myself, I know that members of our profession live in our imaginations as much or more as we… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
Safe from the Neighbors is a novel of unusual richness and depth, one that's as wise about the small shocks within a… — Tom Perrotta Copy Share Image
I’d like to be remembered as someone who used their ability as a novelist or as a dramatist to say the things… — Budd Schulberg Copy Share Image
In writing my historical novels, I have to rely upon my imagination to a great extent. I think of it as 'filling… — Sharon Kay Penman 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
I am a man and alive. For this reason I am a novelist. And, being a novelist, I consider myself superior to… — Anonymous 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 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 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
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
Plato said that poets should be excluded from the ideal republic because they are such liars. I am a poet, and I… — Margaret Atwood 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
America is also the nameless foreigner, the homeless refugee, the hungry boy begging for a job and the black body dangling on… — Carlos Bulosan 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
The lucidity of the battle narratives, the vigor of the prose, the strong feeling for the men from generals to privates who… — Walter Millis Copy Share Image
Screenwriting is a terrible way to make a living and I always try to talk anyone out of it. Until you sit… — Amy Holden Jones Copy Share Image
Science fiction is not predictive; it is descriptive… Prediction is the business of prophets, clairvoyants, and futurologists. It is not the business… — Ursula K. Le Guin 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
Was our life nothing more than a sequence of anonymous screams in a desert of indifferent stars? — Ernesto Sabato Copy Share Image
No matter how little a man has he will find that he will always settle for less. — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
“Novelists don’t have answers and ones that do I'm not sure you should trust.” — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
Avoiding problems you need to face is avoiding the life you need to live. — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
