Business Quote by Arthur Schopenhauer

It is less the business of the novelist to tell us what happened than to show how it happened.

— V. S. Pritchett

The business of a novelist is, in my opinion, to create characters first and foremost, and then to set them in the snarl of…

— John Dos Passos

As an actor, the second and last ones were interesting for me. Because those parts had the most change in playing someone who was…

— Sigourney Weaver

Maybe I'm more drawn to those kind of parts because they are meaningful to me. I mean, more parent-y ones, I find them interesting…

— Joan Cusack

I went to a high school reunion a couple years ago and realized that the kids who were the most unusual in high school…

— Anderson Cooper

I'm always trying to get those interviews that are impossible to get, because they are the ones that are most interesting to the audience.

— Scott Pelley

There are no important differences between men and women, but the unimportant ones are sometimes very interesting.

— Ashleigh Brilliant

Whether he be an original or a plagiarist, man is the novelist of himself.

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

A novelist should make you realize nothing is stable. If you don't believe anything with robustness, you're doing something more radical than anything else.

— Howard Jacobson

As an historical novelist – there are few jobs more retrospective.

— Sara Sheridan

And that singular anomaly, the lady novelist-- I don't think she'd be missed--I'm sure she'd not be missed!

— W. S. Gilbert

Playing with different genres and perspectives and ways of telling stories is one of the perks of being a novelist, but at the same…

— Linn Ullmann