Henry James claim that if you want to be a novelist you should be somebody on whom nothing is lost. — Ben Lerner Copy Share Image
The great thing about being a novelist is that you organize your own day. — Sophie Kinsella Copy Share Image
Drawing Dead is a brilliant noir from one of Australia's most exciting new novelists. — Adrian McKinty Copy Share Image
It is better to write a bad first draft than to write no first draft at all. — Will Shetterly Copy Share Image
You deserve all the good things that happen to you. Don't feel guilty and accept the blessings. — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Whether you're an unpublished novelist or a sixteen-time New York Times bestselling author, you can always improve your craft. You can always… — Robert Dugoni Copy Share Image
We Jews, we are the destroyers and will remain the destroyers. Nothing you can do will meet our demands and needs. We… — Maurice Samuel Copy Share Image
The great European novel started out as entertainment, and every true novelist is nostalgic for it. In fact, the themes of those… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
I couldn't be a novelist for instance. It feels like a very lonely endeavor. I don't know that I could survive the… — Brit Marling Copy Share Image
I'm mostly a novelist these days, but I have written short stories in Fantasy, Science Fiction and horror. — Sarah Zettel Copy Share Image
I've known several spies who have wanted to become novelists. And novelists who became spies, of course. — Christopher Koch Copy Share Image
Whoever claims the right to redistribute the wealth produced by others is claiming the right to treat human beings as chattel. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
A movie will do in one second, with one image, what it will take a novelist at least a page to describe. — Yann Martel 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
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
Douglas Adams did not enjoy writing, and he enjoyed it less as time went on. He was a bestselling, acclaimed, and much-loved… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
For a novelist, it’s kind of an onerous burden to represent an entire culture. That said, I’m in a unique position to… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
The dominant and most deep-dyed trait of the journalist is his timorousness. Where the novelist fearlessly plunges into the water of self-exposure,… — Janet Malcolm Copy Share Image
But the thing is, from the perspective of a novelist there is a brand of lying that feels more honest than the… — Ron Currie Jr Copy Share Image
The higher processes are all processes of simplification. The novelist must learn to write, and then he must unlearn it; just as… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
We are befouling and destroying our own home, we are committing a slow but accelerating race suicide and life murder - planetary… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
You do not conceive a novel as easily as you conceive a child, nor even half as easily as you create nonfiction… — Zelda Popkin Copy Share Image
Plato said that poets should be excluded from the ideal republic because they are such liars. I am a poet, and I… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“If human nature does alter it will be because individuals manage to look at themselves in a new way. Here and there… — E.M. Forster Copy Share Image
I think all those years that I spent as a nurse, from the age of seventeen, just allowed me an insight into… — Christie Watson Copy Share Image
America is also the nameless foreigner, the homeless refugee, the hungry boy begging for a job and the black body dangling on… — Carlos Bulosan Copy Share Image
“There were no rules when it came to writing, he said. Take a close look at the lives of poets and novelists,… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
A friend of mine who writes history books said to me that he thought that the two creatures most to be pitied… — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
The Treatise of the Three Impostors is a book that enjoyed centuries of notorious nonexistence until (as Voltaire would say) it became… — Joscelyn Godwin Copy Share Image
Was our life nothing more than a sequence of anonymous screams in a desert of indifferent stars? — Ernesto Sabato Copy Share Image
No matter how little a man has he will find that he will always settle for less. — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
God gets the great stories. Novelists must make do with more mundane fictions. — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
“Novelists don’t have answers and ones that do I'm not sure you should trust.” — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
Avoiding problems you need to face is avoiding the life you need to live. — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
If these United States can be called a body, then Kentucky can be called its heart. — Jesse Stuart Copy Share Image
