I am not much of a researcher as a novelist; I write mainly from experience. — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
The Electroshock Novelist: The Alluring Bad Boy of Literary England Has Always Been Fascinated by Britain's Dustbin Empire. Now Martin Amis Takes… — Sam Tanenhaus Copy Share Image
As a novelist you have just unlimited budget, total creative control. You really get to have your cake - all the cake… — Naomi Novik Copy Share Image
The novelist must be his own most harsh critic and also his own most loving admirer and about both he must say… — Angus Wilson Copy Share Image
“The writing talent of Edinburgh is textured - we have poets, novelists, non-fiction writers, dramatists and more.” — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
Maybe with "Californication" the character was partly based on Rick Moody. I read him and Jay McInerney, the templates for this bad… — David Duchovny Copy Share Image
Novelists should be free to write whatever they want, to let their imaginations roam as close to or as removed from reality… — Sarah Weinman Copy Share Image
Even the best novelists are rarely congratulated on the quality of their observations about contemporary life. — Michelle Dean Copy Share Image
Reviewers do not read books with much care . . . their profession is more given to stupidity and malice and literary… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
Novelists, it seems to me, are the very last people who should be asked to comment on the news of the day,… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
I like grit, I like love and death, I'm tired of irony. ... A lot of good fiction is sentimental. ... The… — Jim Harrison Copy Share Image
Even if I couldn't get my early novels published, I could still write. I went into newspapers, where I got paid to… — Linwood Barclay Copy Share Image
My argument against God was that the universe seemed so cruel and unjust. But how had I got this idea of just… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
I had, like any other young novelist, started out by believing the difficult thing was to get published and that, once you… — Mordecai Richler Copy Share Image
I would rather win souls than be the greatest king or emperor on earth; I would rather win souls than be the… — R. A. Torrey Copy Share Image
When a novelist or screenwriter is looking for a subject, the element he's seeking is conflict. Conflict makes drama. Conflict produces great… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
When you take a child who's hollering like hell, sit him on your knee, and say "once upon a time", you stop… — William Golding Copy Share Image
“Work—especially the sort of work that gets your hands dirty and that brands you as a member of the working class—no longer… — Gerald Howard Copy Share Image
Well, people have been wondering what's going to happen to the novel for two hundred years; its death has been announced many… — Mordecai Richler Copy Share Image
“Novelists congratulate themselves on their creation of this kind of “character” or that kind of “character,” and readers pretend to talk knowingly… — Sōseki Natsume Copy Share Image
“In theory one is aware that the earth revolves, but in practice one does not perceive it, the ground upon which one… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Novelists are stamina merchants, grinders, nine-to-fivers, and their career curves follow the usual arc of human endeavour. — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
Many thousands of people have had the experience of finding the first friend, and it is none the less a wonder; as… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
If the novelist isn't surprised by where his book ends up, he or she probably hasn't written anything worth remembering. — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Writing tends to be very deliberate. A novelist could probably run a military campaign with some success. They could certainly run a… — Colm Toibin Copy Share Image
Here's a secret. Many novelists, if they are pressed and if they are being honest, will admit that the finished book is… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
A novelist should make you realize nothing is stable. If you don't believe anything with robustness, you're doing something more radical than… — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
We live in an age in which the imagination of the novelist is helpless against what he knows he is going to… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
Canada has one great novelist (Robertson Davies), which means it has one for every twenty-five million citizens - the world's highest ratio. — George Will Copy Share Image
It is in their 'good' characters that novelists make, unawares, the most shocking self- revelations. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The suspense in a novel is not only in the reader, but in the novelist himself, who is intensely curious too about… — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
Never give up on your dream...Perseverance is all important. If you don't have the desire and the belief in yourself to keep… — Tawni O'Dell Copy Share Image
Whatever fame a novelist my attain, it's always kind of an anonymous one. I can go anywhere, and no one knows who… — Jonathan Kellerman Copy Share Image
When men abandon reason, physical force becomes their only means of dealing with one another and of settling disagreements. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
I'm really aware that in fiction, women are pretty much equal. There's a lot of very successful women novelists. Not so much… — Emma Donoghue Copy Share Image
Novelists who treat violence and cruelty as something to be exploited for their effect, or to enjoy the pleasure of an evacuation,… — Storm Jameson Copy Share Image
Stories in which the destruction of society occurs are explorations of social fears and issues that filmmakers, novelists, playwrights, painters have been… — J. J. Abrams Copy Share Image
The novelist works neither to correct nor to condone, not at all to comfort, but to make what's told alive. — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
The idea of being a novelist is really romantic, but it's kind of the same as being president of the United States… — Richard Paul Evans Copy Share Image
Outcasts may grow up to be novelists and filmmakers and computer tycoons, but they will never be the athletic ruling class. — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
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