Salvation is an individual relationship with God. I've always considered myself to be a devotional poet, and I consider myself to be… — Richard Grossman Copy Share Image
Novelists tend to go off at 70, and I'm in a funk about it, I've got myself into a real paranoid funk… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
I think I'm someone who can prattle on a long time about something, which serves me well as a novelist, but it's… — Maggie Shipstead Copy Share Image
“But she had a lively acquaintaince with confinement through the works of women novelists, especially those of the unmarried ones.” — Stella Gibbons Copy Share Image
RICE-WATER, n. A mystic beverage secretly used by our most popular novelists and poets to regulate the imagination and narcotize the conscience. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
A pornographic novelist is one who exploits the sexual instinct as a prostitute does. A legitimate sex novel elucidates it or brings… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I recognize myself to be an intensely naive person. Most novelists are, despite frequent pretensions to deep socio-political insight. — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
The novel is very much alive, indeed. In Toronto at the Sixth Annual International Festival of Authors (October 1985) I listened to… — William Golding Copy Share Image
I know that books I have written will still resonate in 50 years - particularly 'My Sister's Keeper.' It has sold three… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
I think it's especially important for an editor to say what he's enjoying. For a novelist to be told, midstream, what he's… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
In journalism just one fact that is false prejudices the entire work. In contrast, in fiction one single fact that is true… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
“The genres, it is thought, have other designs on us. They want to entertain, as opposed to rubbing our noses in the… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
When I began to read as an adult, I read almost exclusively novelists of a generation back. I did the Russians, then… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
I write about life as it exists within houses and on the streets. And there's nothing, hopefully, in any of my characterizations… — Richard Grossman Copy Share Image
I certainly wake up every morning and thank God that I'm not a novelist because the theater is tough, but novel writing… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
Many novelists take well-defined, precise characters, whose stories are sometimes of mediocre interest, and place them in an important historical context, which… — Raymond Queneau Copy Share Image
The novelist is the person who spends a lot of his or her day thinking about the human drama and emotional complexity. — Thane Rosenbaum Copy Share Image
“But the other Ministers considered that to employ a magician was one thing, novelists were quite another and they would not stoop… — Susanna Clarke Copy Share Image
I am looking for the novelists whose writing is an extension of their intellect rather than an extension of their neurosis. — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Yeah, I have the detail-obsessed, controlling personality of a novelist, but I somehow ended up writing plays. — Annie Baker Copy Share Image
“Ruth Cole was a novelist; novelists are not at their best when they go off half-cocked. She believed that she would prepare… — John Irving Copy Share Image
Poets think in short lines. Unless you're Samuel Beckett, Twitter might be more difficult for novelists. — Kenneth Goldsmith Copy Share Image
Listening is crucial for any novelist. Stories & ideas abound. We too often talk about ourselves & block out the richness others may offer. — Mark Rubinstein Copy Share Image
How can we expect novelists to be moral, when their trade forces them to treat every end they meet as no more… — Randall Jarrell Copy Share Image
“Agenda-driven novelists don’t often want to bother learning the craft of fiction. They’re just dipping into fiction long enough to disguise their… — Jeff Gerke Copy Share Image
As a novelist, I have a somewhat higher soapbox to stand on than most people do when it comes to talking back… — L. Neil Smith Copy Share Image
The novelist screws up his courage in order to invest another two or three years in another attempt to float a boat… — Edward Hoagland Copy Share Image
Teaching high school was my real training as a novelist: it got me out of my head, and (at least a little)… — Garth Greenwell Copy Share Image
Literary novelists who have a strong handle on plot are often characterized as good vacation reads because they manage to transport you… — Michelle Dean Copy Share Image
I have a ways to go as a novelist. But what's great is, well, I frankly enjoyed the solitude. And I enjoyed… — Howard Gordon Copy Share Image
I was a novelist before I was a TV screenwriter. Actually, as a kid, I think I'd always wanted to be a… — Ben Richards Copy Share Image
Since I became a novelist I have discovered that I am biased. Either I think a new novel is worse than mine… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
Novelists may be able to seek advice from readers and editors, but in the end, it is up to them to get… — Jon Weisman Copy Share Image
I found it really disturbing to see a novelist writing a diatribe about Islam and Muslim radical extremists, blurring the distinction between… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
Not everyone is capable of madness; and of those lucky enough to be capable, not many have the courage for it. — August Strindberg Copy Share Image
Let the novelists fret about consistency - story writers should feel free to jam; to get things right in new, surprising ways… — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
When I began to read as an adult, my first big enthusiasm was Evelyn Waugh. I read almost exclusively novelists of a… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
Basically, all novelists should want to tell a story, and if they don't want to, they shouldn't be novelists. I think story-telling… — Susan Howatch Copy Share Image
You get spoiled as a novelist because you get to be the director and the editor, and you play all the parts,… — Jo Nesbo Copy Share Image
If you need proof of how the oral relates to the written, consider that many great novelists, including Joyce and Hemingway, never… — Frank Delaney Copy Share Image
