Contemporary Quote by Annie Dillard

I saw novelists as being admirable people and I thought... I thought... maybe, one day, I could be one of them.

— Michael Palin

Never literary attempt was more unfortunate than my Treatise of Human Nature. It fell dead-born from the press.

— David Hume

I've come to think of myself as a writer of books.

— Richard Hell

I had thought of writing, actually, and that later on I'd be a novelist.

— Francois Truffaut

Not having any real direction, one writer would lead me to another.

— James Franco

I like to think of myself as an unmediated novelist - or perhaps a national novelist.

— E. L. Doctorow

If I had been brought up in America, I think I would still have had the same sort of job as a writer.

— Justin Cartwright

In this choice, as I look back over more than half a century, I can only follow - and trust - the same sort…

— Mary Augusta Ward

A lot of novels use crime as a stepping stone to talk about greater issues. So I just think of myself as a writer.

— Karin Slaughter

Fundamentally, I think of myself as a storyteller, not a writer.

— Tom Clancy

I can't be alone among fiction writers in regarding the world, so much weirder than anything we could make up, as beating us at…

— Lionel Shriver

I consider myself foremost a novelist with the intent of crafting stories that people will remember.

— Nicholas Sparks