To write? Because all this is going to vanish. The only thing left will be the prose and poems, the books, what… — James Salter Copy Share Image
A man can write one book that can be great, but this doesn't make him a great writer-just the writer of a… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
A novelist can shift view-point if it comes off. ... Indeed, this power to expand and contract perception (of which the shifting… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
I think having a coach or an editor or whatever the novelist's producer is could help. If you finish a chapter and… — Craig Finn Copy Share Image
I never wanted to be well-rounded. I do not admire well-rounded people nor their work. So far as I can see, nothing… — Harry Crews Copy Share Image
“A philosopher,' said Mrs. Cantanker, stalking across the study, black heels clicking, ruby silks whispering around her ankles, 'is one who attempts… — Stefan Bachmann Copy Share Image
In America they have to know just what you are-- novelist, poet, playwright... Well, I've been all of them... I think poems… — Robert Penn Warren Copy Share Image
I feel the responsibility of the novelist is to create a very complex world populated by very complex individuals and to deepen… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
I read all of Rider Haggard's books. For me he had the romance of Africa with a little bit of mysticism. I'm… — Wilbur Smith Copy Share Image
In terms of style, I think the memoirist should have a novelist's skill and all the elements of a novelist's toolbox. When… — Danielle Trussoni Copy Share Image
It is true that it is usually for their books that novelists reserve their most considered and ordered thoughts, but the fact… — Justin Cartwright Copy Share Image
From about ninth grade on, I knew I was a writer at heart. I had fantasies of being a great novelist, but… — Kevin Maney Copy Share Image
As far as the education of children is concerned I think they should be taught not the little virtues but the great… — Natalia Ginzburg Copy Share Image
Dickens didn't have access to any other epistemologies other than those prevailing in Britain. But a novelist today cannot plausibly claim ignorance… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
Novelists are not equipped to make a movie, in my opinion. They make their own movie when they write: they're casting, they're… — John le Carre Copy Share Image
I envied women with signature hair-dos, signature perfumes, signature sign-offs. Novelists who tell Vogue Magazine: “I can’t live without my Smythson notebook,… — Emma Forrest Copy Share Image
Manners are of such great consequence to the novelist that any kind will do. Bad manners are better than no manners at… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
Which is mightily ironic since one of the most common criticisms of American women novelists (it's a load of crap but it… — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
But in this country we have one great privilege which they don't have in other countries. When a thing gets to be… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Bitter criticism caused the sensitive Thomas Hardy, one of the finest novelists ever to enrich English literature, to give up forever the… — Dale Carnegie Copy Share Image
The business of a novelist is, in my opinion, to create characters first and foremost, and then to set them in the… — John Dos Passos Copy Share Image
History is the history of human behavior, and human behavior is the raw material of fiction. Most people recognize that novelists do… — Amy Waldman Copy Share Image
What's not realized about good novelists is that they're as competitive as good athletes. They study each other - where the other… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
A couple years ago, the novelist Russell Banks told me he was reading the ancient Greek historian Herodotus. I asked why. He… — Richard Russo Copy Share Image
As a novelist, there are three phone calls you never expect to receive in your lifetime because if you waited for them… — Chris Bohjalian Copy Share Image
Detach the writer from the milieu where he has experienced his greatest sense of belonging, and you have created a discontinuity within… — Henry Roth Copy Share Image
Why should a novelist not also be a historian? To force unnatural divisions within the English language is to work against its… — Peter Ackroyd Copy Share Image
And I didn't grow up wanting to be a director. I grew up wanting to be a writer, so for me, that… — David Benioff Copy Share Image
(The new boyfriend) knows I write every day for hours but has no idea that all I’m writing about is me. It… — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
I wrote my first novel in the same conditions as most first novelists - I had a full-time job, I shared an… — Jonathan Dee Copy Share Image
The thought of the novelist lies not in the remarks of his characters or even in their introspection but in the plight… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
Playing with different genres and perspectives and ways of telling stories is one of the perks of being a novelist, but at… — Linn Ullmann Copy Share Image
Most good novelists have been women or homosexuals. The novel is the triumphant evolved creation, one increasingly has to think, of these… — Nicholson Baker Copy Share Image
As a novelist, I mined my history, my family and my memory, but in a very specific way. Writing fiction, I never… — Ayelet Waldman Copy Share Image
I didn't start running because somebody asked me to become a runner. Just like I didn't become a novelist because someone asked… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I feel if theres one little thing I could do, its to make people realize: We are not worthless because we inhabit… — Bapsi Sidhwa Copy Share Image
A sacred illness is one that educates us and alters us from the inside out, provides experiences and therefore knowledge that we… — Deena Metzger Copy Share Image
All novels are about crime. You'd be hard pressed to find any novel that does not have an element of crime. I… — Carl Hiaasen Copy Share Image
Most of my life, I thought that I would end up a novelist. But then, in New York City, after college, I… — Jon Spaihts Copy Share Image
