Don't give to anyone the power to put you down. Haters are losers pretending to be winners. — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Great novelists are philosopher novelists - that is, the contrary of thesis-writers. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Life is only limited by our prejudices. Destroy them, and you cease to be at the mercy of yourself. — Mina Loy Copy Share Image
Miss Austen had shown the infinite possibilities of ordinary and present things for the novelist. — George Saintsbury Copy Share Image
My job as the novelist is to present the whole case, then the reader gets to render her verdict. — Joshua Mohr Copy Share Image
I am worrying about my country. I feel I have a responsibility as a novelist to do something. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
There are many reasons why novelists write, but they all have one thing in common - a need to create an alternative… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
We all now tell stories by cutting from one dramatic scene to the next, whereas Victorian novelists felt free to write long… — Ken Follett Copy Share Image
I became fascinated by the fact that people write to give away rather than write to be read. It's the difference between… — David Suchet Copy Share Image
Truth is the recognition of reality; reason, man's only means of knowledge, is his only standard of truth. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
With a novelist, like a surgeon, you have to get a feeling that you've fallen into good hands - someone from whom… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
Although some people think I am a romantic novelist I have always thought of myself as a rather gritty radical historian. — Philippa Gregory Copy Share Image
The bad novelist constructs his characters; he directs them and makes them speak. The true novelist listens to them and watches them… — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
As a successful romantic novelist - one of my publishers is Mills & Boon - I create the sort of male heroes… — P. C. Cast Copy Share Image
Everything written, if it has anything in it, will offend someone, and if the mere taking of offence was to amount to… — Rex Murphy Copy Share Image
First-book novelists and storywriters haven't yet failed and so it's easier to publish them - you can gamble on a success. Whereas… — Frederick Busch Copy Share Image
I assume that - because you can get degrees in journalism from very reputable universities - I assume that people can be… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
TO ALL THE ambulance drivers firewatchers air-raid wardens nurses canteen workers airplane spotters rescue workers mathematicians vicars vergers shopgirls chorus girls librarians… — Connie Willis Copy Share Image
I always have done work on mythic relations since I started writing. I really want to be a novelist, or at least… — Marina Warner Copy Share Image
Sometimes someone will tell me about an author I've never heard of before and that will send me to that person. That's… — Stephen Dobyns Copy Share Image
Everyone assumes that novelists are smarter and more interesting. They're generally smarter and more interesting, but they're often very short. So it… — Liev Schreiber Copy Share Image
Novelists who pretend to understand what keeps them scribbling are really just guessing. A profound, unmet childish need to be acknowledged? Maybe.… — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
If you think reading a book is hard, you should try writing one. Because it's even harder. It's still not as hard… — Erik Wolpaw Copy Share Image
“Our great novelists, though experts on indignity and assault, on loneliness and terror, tend to avoid treating the passionate encounter of a… — Leslie Fiedler Copy Share Image
Political thriller? International thriller? Financial thriller? Whatever you call it, The Ascendant is smart, edgy, fast-paced storytelling at its best. Its unlikely… — Alafair Burke Copy Share Image
All kinds of mysterious phenomena exist in this world, but answers to most of them have come with advances in scientific knowledge.… — Mo Yan Copy Share Image
There are novels that end well, but in between there are human beings acting like human beings. And human beings are not… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Artists are just entrepreneurs. It's up to them to figure out how or if they can make a monetary profit from their… — Stephan Kinsella Copy Share Image
The point I would make is that the novelist and the historian are seeking the same thing: the truth – not a… — Shelby Foote Copy Share Image
I don’t think ‘science fiction’ is a very good name for it, but it’s the name that we’ve got. It is different… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
I hated being a novelist when I was 20 - I had nothing to write about. — A. S. Byatt Copy Share Image
As a novelist, I ask of myself only that I tell the truth and that I tell it beautifully. — Taiye Selasi Copy Share Image
Proust was the greatest novelist of the twentieth century, just as Tolstoy was in the nineteenth. — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
It is less the business of the novelist to tell us what happened than to show how it happened. — V. S. Pritchett Copy Share Image
Henry James would have been vastly improved as a novelist by a few whiffs of the Chicago stockyard. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
It is not the great temptations that ruin us; it is the little ones. — John William De Forest Copy Share Image
Once upon a time, novelists of the 19th century, such as Charles Dickens, published in serial form. — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
