“Passionate attraction to someone of the opposite sex will make a hero or a fool of a novelist each time.” — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
Sometimes writing a novel is not unlike having a baby. You'd have to ask a female novelist to compare the pain. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Novelists are people who have discovered that they can dampen their neuroses by writing make-believe. We will keep on doing that no… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
You tell me your favorite novelists and I'll tell you whom you vote for, or whether you vote at all. — Stephen Vizinczey Copy Share Image
To be true to life, a novel must have an ending that is inevitable given the specific personalities of the characters involved.… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
If you want to be a psychological novelist and write about human beings, the best thing you can do is keep a… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
I don't get involved in casting, budgets, location or promotion. Just the script. And, of course, the promotional tour. Which is fine… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
In a certain way, novelists become unacknowledged historians, because we talk about small, tiny, little anonymous moments that won't necessarily make it… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
I became a virtuoso of deceit. It wasn't pleasure I was after, it was knowledge. I consulted the strictest moralists to learn… — Christopher Hampton Copy Share Image
To call Clive Barker a 'horror novelist' would be like calling the Beatles a 'garage band'... He is the great imaginer of… — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
I don't believe in the meteoric culture of anxiety, generally. Obviously, some people have it, some people are crippled by it, but… — Andrew O'Hagan Copy Share Image
I see myself as a novelist, period. I mean, the material I work with is what is classified as science fiction and… — Roger Zelazny Copy Share Image
The preoccupation of the novelist: how to capture the living moments, was answered by the diary. You write while you are alive.… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
I think it's also the case that I'm not as widely travelled, or as well-educated in history, as most of the other… — Jonathan Coe Copy Share Image
People really want to believe that there is no fiction. I think they find it much easier to imagine that novelists are… — Mark Leyner Copy Share Image
The man without a purpose is a man who drifts at the mercy of random feelings or unidentified urges and is capable… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The few really great-the major novelists ... are significant in terms of the human awareness they promote; awareness of the possibilities of life. — F. R. Leavis Copy Share Image
I always counsel aspiring novelists that passion is the most important quality for a writer to possess - technique can be taught,… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
Horror writers can write about everything in the real world that a mainstream novelist can--plus the supernatural, which is the most fertile… — Bentley Little Copy Share Image
Novelists who get shitty about screenwriting invariably can't do it, or they can't hack it in the world of what's really, in… — William Monahan Copy Share Image
Just as we bemoan the passing away of the Great Novel, a great novelist is likely to emerge, perhaps even from Denmark… — J. M. Coetzee Copy Share Image
I want to be a popular novelist who's also serious, or a serious novelist who's also very accessible. — Douglas Kennedy Copy Share Image
For novelists, sharply drawn moral conflicts are often useful, and even human and personal disasters can be seen as material. — Justin Cartwright Copy Share Image
Novelists are in the business of constructing consciousness out of words, and that's what we all do, cradle to grave. The self… — James Gleick Copy Share Image
Sometimes I think no matter how one is born, no matter how one acts, there is something out of gear with one… — Jessie Redmon Fauset Copy Share Image
The movies are fun, but I'm a novelist. In many ways, screenwriting is much easier than writing novels. I find screenplays twenty… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
They can't yank a novelist like they can a pitcher. A novelist has to go the full nine, even if it kills… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Sigmund Freud was a novelist with a scientific background. He just didn't know he was a novelist. All those damn psychiatrists after… — John Irving Copy Share Image
Most writers are not quick-witted when they talk. Novelists, in particular, drag themselves around in society like gut-shot bears. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I don't like to read novels where the novelist tells me what to think about the situation and the characters. I prefer… — Frederick Wiseman Copy Share Image
“To stomach the world for any prolonged length of time, one must either remain a child or become more than a man” — Michael Lieber Copy Share Image
How can a novelist achieve atonement when with her absolute power of deciding outcomes, she is also god? — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
To be honest, I want readers to be wrung out. As a novelist, I don't have a political agenda or specific philosophy;… — Jillian Medoff Copy Share Image
We shall kill. If you have not killed at least one German a day, you have wasted that day... Do not count… — Ilya Ehrenburg Copy Share Image
There's a unique bond of trust between readers and authors that I don't believe exists in any other art form; as a… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
A novelist who ranks with Proust , Kafka , Musil and his friend James Joyce as one of the enduring pillars of Modernism. — Italo Svevo Copy Share Image
Things that appear on the front page of the newspaper as 'fact' are far more dangerous than the games played by a… — E. L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
I'm proud to be a crime novelist. What I've chosen is the best way to convey the questions I'm trying to raise. — George Pelecanos Copy Share Image
I wrote four novels, but then I realized that the world didn't need me to be a novelist, but the world could… — David Quammen Copy Share Image
If this were fiction, could even the most brilliant novelist contrive to make credible so short a period in which pride had… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
