“Ruth was a novelist, and novelists, Oliver asserted, should have cats and books.” — Ruth Ozeki Copy Share Image
Novelists tell that piece of truth hidden at the bottom of every lie. — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
A novelist has a specific poetic license which also applies to his own life. — Jerzy Kosinski Copy Share Image
I realized that my identity as a novelist was private. Only I knew how much of a novelist I was! — Alexander Chee Copy Share Image
Work is against human nature. The proof is that it makes us tired. — Michel Tournier Copy Share Image
For a novelist, it's kind of an onerous burden to represent an entire culture. — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
There was never a good biography of a good novelist. There couldn't be. He is too many people if he's any good. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
On lady novelists: As artists they're rot, but as providers they're oil wells; they gush. Norris said she never wrote a story… — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
Novels are fictions and therefore they tell lies, but through those lies every novelist attempts to tell the truth about the world. — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
Novelists don't age as quickly as philosophers, who often face professional senility in their late twenties. — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
Selfish men make the best lovers. They're prepared to invest in the women's pleasures so that they can collect an even bigger… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
Universities are filled with poets and novelists conducting demure and careful lives in imitation of Eliot and Forster and those others who… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
No, Paul, I couldn't care less if you tell me made-up stories. Our lies reveal as much about us as our truths.'… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Not long ago, a novelist could believe he could have an effect on our consciousness of terror. Today, the men who shape… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
Like every novelist, I fantasise about film. Novelists are not equipped to make a movie, in my opinion. They make their own… — John le Carre Copy Share Image
I've been working hard on [Ulysses] all day," said Joyce. Does that mean that you have written a great deal?" I said.… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
The wisdom of literature is quite antithetical to having opinions. 'Nothing is my last word about anything,' said Henry James. Furnishing opinions,… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
I am persuaded that not a novel in ten thousand is of any use to a child to fit him for life.… — Storm Jameson Copy Share Image
“On some level, most novelists write fiction to create order out of chaos. When you shape a fictional story, you can tie… — Kevin Guilfoile Copy Share Image
It's like a novelist writing far out things. If it makes a point and makes sense, then people like to read that.… — Johnny Cash Copy Share Image
It sounds schmaltzy to say, but fiction is much more to do with love than people admit or acknowledge. The novelist has… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
My political position springs from my being a novelist. In so far as I am concerned, politics and the novel are an… — Ghassan Kanafani Copy Share Image
“Novelists when they write novels tend to take an almost godlike attitude toward their subject, pretending to a total comprehension of the… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“In fact, there is no such thing as character, something fixed and final. The real thing is something that novelists don’t know… — Soseki Natsume Copy Share Image
I look at some of the great novelists, and I think the reason they are great is that they're telling the truth.… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Even in an intensely mediated world, in a world that offers at least the illusion of radical self-invention and radical freedom of… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
The problems you have as a novelist tend to have to do with making a living and trying to find ways to… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
While it might be true that our reality would suggest that more writers would address these elemental issues of modern life -… — Rachel Kushner Copy Share Image
There was a time when the average reader read a novel simply for the moral he could get out of it, and… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
The stupidity of people comes from having an answer for everything. The wisdom of the novel comes from having a question for… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
![“I've been working hard on [Ulysses] all day," said Joyce. Does that mean that you have written a great deal?" I said. Two sentences," said Joyce. I looked sideways but Joyce was not smiling. I thought of [French novelist Gustave] Flaubert. "You've been seeking the mot juste?" I said. No," said…” quote by James Joyce](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/275/james-joyce-281_deals_i-ve-been-working-hard-on-ulysses-all-da_1018148.jpg)
