Novelists Quote by Albert Camus

Great novelists are philosopher novelists - that is, the contrary of thesis-writers.

— Albert Camus

“From the beginning I've searched out those writers unafraid to stir up the emotions, who entrust me with their darkest passions, their most indestructible…

— Pat Conroy

“I don’t know about lying for novelists. I look at some of the great novelists, and I think the reason they are great is…

— Maya Angelou

I look at some of the great novelists, and I think the reason they are great is that they're telling the truth. The fact…

— Maya Angelou

“Our great novelists, though experts on indignity and assault, on loneliness and terror, tend to avoid treating the passionate encounter of a man and…

— Leslie Fiedler

I believe that all novels, ... deal with character, and that it is to express character – not to preach doctrines, sing songs, or…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

If you need proof of how the oral relates to the written, consider that many great novelists, including Joyce and Hemingway, never submitted a…

— Frank Delaney

In the depths of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.

— Albert Camus

One of the only coherent philosophical positions is thus revolt. It is a constant confrontation between man and his own obscurity.

— Albert Camus

You could say that all novels are spy novels and all novelists are spy masters.

— Ian Mcewan

The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that…

— Isaac Asimov

Things that appear on the front page of the newspaper as 'fact' are far more dangerous than the games played by a novelist, and…

— E. L. Doctorow