Novelists Quote by Anonymous

Not all popular novelists are good, but all good novelists are, sooner or later, popular.

— Dean Koontz

Some of the most untidy writers have also been the most productive. Iris Murdoch, for instance, wrote a good 30 books in a house…

— Craig Brown

“I disliked them all immediately, sitting around acting clever and superior. They nullified each other. The worst thing for a writer is to know…

— Charles Bukowski

There are good writers and bad writers. It's hard to find writers who really speak to you, but the work is out there.

— Colson Whitehead

I'm the most translated writer in the world, behind Lenin, Tolstoy, Gorki and Jules Verne. And they're all dead.

— Mickey Spillane

“You ordinary people who read and do not write, who 'like to read' and know nothing of the sufferings of writers, how fortunate you…

— Joyce Carol Oates

All good novelists have bad memories.

— Graham Greene

Authors I've longed to write like - but realize I actually can't even begin to - include Poe, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Kafka, Daniil Kharms,…

— Helen Oyeyemi

A good writer is one you can read without breaking a sweat.

— Patricia T. O'Conner

There are so many good authors; there's no shortage of them.

— Jeanne Calment

There was never a good biography of a good novelist. There couldn't be. He is too many people if he's any good.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

I love Roald Dahl, Sharon Olds, Nizar Qabbani, who is a poet, and Junot Diaz.

— Rupi Kaur