Well I'm not a novelist. I've only written one book and that is a memoir. — Carly Fiorina Copy Share Image
Novelists should never allow themselves to weary of the study of real life. — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
... the novelist is bound by the reasonable possibilities, not the probabilities, of his culture. — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
I'm a novelist at heart. How's that? And that's how I make my living, is I write novels. — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
Being a novelist is hard for anyone - male or female. You don't get to quit your day job. — Jennifer Weiner Copy Share Image
For purposes of marketing, writers are designated as poets, novelists, or something else. But writing is about matchmaking, an attempt to marry… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
The novelist can't successfully depict such horrifying reality. But she can, and must, try, to bear witness. There are many ways of… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
Some novelists are luckier than others in the eras of their formative intellectual years, but all Weltanschauungs return, which means that most… — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
Dreadful is a poignant biography of a forgotten man who drank himself to death. It's a brilliant evocation of a self-hating gay… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
If I actually believed that the progress of human understanding depended on our crop of contemporary novelists, I would shoot myself. — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
A historian may be an artist too, and a novelist is a historian, the preserver, the keeper, the expounder, of human experience. — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
I do not think men have more talent. There are a great many women in the arts; novelists, painters, sculptors, poets-but the… — Dorothy Fields Copy Share Image
Independent graphic novelists have already achieved good work in terms of design, but all these great minds are writing in English. There… — Anurag Kashyap Copy Share Image
I cling to the basic set of tenets laid out in Tom Wolfe's 'New Journalism' - to get out there like the… — Peter York Copy Share Image
I don't mind when people are telling me about their 1971 Firebird, but it's the same thing as people telling me about… — Jonny Greenwood Copy Share Image
There is a continual exchange of ideas between all minds of a generation. Journalists, popular novelists, illustrators, and cartoonists adapt the truths… — Auguste Rodin Copy Share Image
Radio is the medium that most closely approximates the experience of reading. As a novelist, I find it very exciting to be… — Daniel Alarcon Copy Share Image
I don't have doctrinaire views about how we should relate to Asia. But novelists reflect the world they live in, and that… — Christopher Koch Copy Share Image
The novelist now usurps the chair of the educator, the pulpit of the preacher, the columns of the journalist. Yet his original… — Philip Wylie Copy Share Image
As a novelist, your impulse is toward multiplicity: multiple voices, multiple perceptions, multiple nuances, the ambiguity in human communication. Fiction really is… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
For a while, when I got out of college, I tried to write fiction. I'd grown up more around novelists, and my… — David Grann Copy Share Image
A short story is a sprint, a novel is a marathon. Sprinters have seconds to get from here to there and then… — Jonathan Carroll Copy Share Image
Novelists have, on the average, about the same IQs as the cosmetic consultants at Bloomingdale’s department store. Our power is patience. We… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Balzac was pretty funny. His philosophy is plain and simple, says basically that pure materialism is a recipe for madness. The only… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
Radio, or at least the kind of radio we're proposing to do, can cut through that. It can reach people who would… — Daniel Alarcon Copy Share Image
Obviously cheap sentimentality isn't something any good novelist wants to traffic in, but I think it's a problem if you consider it… — Steve Erickson Copy Share Image
The Catholic novelist in the South will see many distorted images of Christ, but he will certainly feel that a distorted image… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
I said it before and I’ll say it again: books are dead, plays are dead, poems are dead: there’s only movies. Music… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
The complete novelist would come into the world with a catalog of qualities like this. He would own the concentration of a… — Leon Uris Copy Share Image
Wherever I am, if I've got a book with me, I have a place I can go and be happy — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
I believe that only poetry counts ... A great novelist is first of all a great poet. — Francois Mauriac Copy Share Image
If you only write when inspired, you may be a fairly decent poet, but you'll never be a novelist. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Novelists have to love humanity to write anything worthwhile. Poets have to love themselves. — Marita Golden Copy Share Image
Just as the painter thinks with his brush and paints the novelist thinks with his story. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
I don't really consider myself a novelist, it just came out purely by accident. — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
A novelist has to know enough about a subject to fool the passenger next to him on an airplane. — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
Sometimes I think that novelists suffer from P.C.S.: Perpetual Childhood Syndrome. — Simon Mawer Copy Share Image
