For a novelist, a given historic situation is an anthropologic laboratory in which he explores his basic question: What is human existence? — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
It's hard for me to believe that a shy, bespectacled college graduate like Brad Meltzer who's a novelist and a father is… — Grant Morrison Copy Share Image
I am a huge fan of Alan Furst. Furst is the best in the business--the most talented espionage novelist of our generation. — Vince Flynn Copy Share Image
Noir is dead for me because historically, I think it's a simple view. I've taken it as far as it can go.… — James Ellroy Copy Share Image
If you tell a novelist, 'Life's not like that', he has to do something about it. The poet simply replies, 'No, but… — Philip Larkin Copy Share Image
Military people never seem to apologize for killing each other yet novelists feel ashamed for writing some nice inert paper book that… — Leonora Carrington Copy Share Image
The truth is that I know very few novelists who have been satisfied with the adaptation of their books for the screen. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
What the podcast novelists do isnt all that different from what self-publishers do. We put the books out in different formats, but… — Jeremy Robinson Copy Share Image
A novel is based on evidence, + or -x, the unknown quantity being the temperament of the novelist, and the unknown quantity… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
It is however, difficult to make your narratives relative by yourself. A novelists' work is to provide models to make your narratives… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
At any rate, that’s how I started running. Thirty three—that’s how old I was then. Still young enough, though no longer a… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I really think more fledgling novelists - and many current and even established novelists - should get out into the real world… — C. J. Box Copy Share Image
I did want to become a novelist, but the program at Waseda was pretty intense in terms of language requirements - two… — Hirokazu Koreeda Copy Share Image
In learning to pay respectful attention to one another and plants and animals, we relearn the acts of empathy, and thus humility… — William Kittredge 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
In Europe, I'm recognized on the street sometimes. And that's cool, because I don't have to live there and deal with it… — George Pelecanos Copy Share Image
I want you to be afraid to turn the page (and to do that) you need to show right from the beginning… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
I'm inspired by playwrights, novelists, poets: The value of language has been a lifelong passion of mine. I enjoy it. I'm good… — Mos Def Copy Share Image
You simply cannot invent any conspiracy theory so ridiculous and obviously satirical that some people somewhere don't already believe it. — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
To capture the human cost of fallen empire with all its horror and absurdity, Sheets offers the right combination: the political insight… — Martin Cruz Smith Copy Share Image
I don't get on with novelists, don't enjoy their company. Once you've worked for a publisher, you understand the species, see them… — Neil Cross Copy Share Image
I don't think I'm a natural novelist. Plot is definitely one of my weaker points. I've been working on it a long… — Rick Bass Copy Share Image
I suppose I am a born novelist, for the things I imagine are more vital and vivid to me than the things… — Ellen Glasgow 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
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
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
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
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
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
People have obsessions and fears and passions which they don't admit to. I think every character is interesting and has extremes. It's… — Iris Murdoch 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
To what degree are historians chroniclers of the truth and to what degree are they just novelists, frankly? — Peter Morgan Copy Share Image
Not since Lord of the Flies has a novelist written with such perceptiveness about the potential for harm that lurks within the… — Paula Sharp Copy Share Image
What I was utterly convinced of, and still am, is the idea that the only responsibility the free intellectual has is vis-a-vis… — Tawfiq al-Hakim 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
I always think the novelist should go to the culture's dark places and poke around. Pose a lot of hard questions. — Dana Spiotta 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
The greatest benefit we owe to the artist, whether painter, poet, or novelist, is the extension of our sympathies. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
I don't think any novelist should be concerned with literature…literature should be left to essayists. — Jacqueline Susann Copy Share Image
