Novelist Quote by Barry Unsworth Download Open image “I'm not a biographer, I'm a novelist.” — Barry Unsworth ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Novelist
“Biographers are not usually as explicit as philosophers such as Plato, Wittgenstein, Austin, or Moore on questions of the existence of an essential self,… — Hermione Lee Copy Share Image
When you're a biographer, you want to explore the very things that your subject didn't care to talk about. — Ron Chernow Copy Share Image
Autobiography is a preemptive strike against biographers. — Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Copy Share Image
I haven't been the kind of writer about whom book-length academic studies have been written. — Manuel Puig Copy Share Image
I am not much of a researcher as a novelist; I write mainly from experience. — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
Well I'm not a novelist. I've only written one book and that is a memoir. — Carly Fiorina Copy Share Image
“Men are moral beings in their untrammelled nature. If constraint and coercion can once be removed they will be happy and if they are… — Barry Unsworth Copy Share Image
“I glimpsed the man's face with the shine of death on it. They laid him down there in the open. They had brought him… — Barry Unsworth Copy Share Image
“Numbers of men are getting richer and greater numbers are getting poorer. Alas, both classes have higher expectations these days. In Short, sir, there… — Barry Unsworth Copy Share Image
“Grief works its own perversions and betrayals; the shape of what we have lost is as subject to corruption as the mortal body...” — Barry Unsworth Copy Share Image
“It is everyone's bounden duty to try to get more than they have got already. If you have got two shillin' you try to… — Barry Unsworth Copy Share Image
“Wickedness is too common in the world for us to think much of why and wherefore. It is more natural to ask about the… — Barry Unsworth Copy Share Image
“And this was history now: heroic protest, concerted rebellion, execution of the tyrant, a new social order. It ran like a clear stream--useless to… — Barry Unsworth Copy Share Image
Eudora Welty's 'A Curtain of Green' had an enormous effect on me. But my early attempts to graft stories from the Deep South onto… — Barry Unsworth Copy Share Image
“Those confiding their pain cannot know at the outset how much they will be required to relive it.” — Barry Unsworth Copy Share Image
“The successful cannot be unhappy -- it was a contradiction in terms.” — Barry Unsworth Copy Share Image
The novelist's intuition for the sacred differs from the translator's interrogation of the sacred. — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
“Amanda herself couldn't understand why her writing was so different from her own personality. Her pen seemed to take on a life of its… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
As an historical novelist - there are few jobs more retrospective. I dumped science at an early age. — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
I maintain that if you're a novelist and you go into an art museum, you'll come out a better novelist. And if you paint… — John Hawkes Copy Share Image
“A warm sunny evening, the plash and gurgle of the waves in the rock pools, the rush of the cold gin. I thought for… — William Boyd Copy Share Image
“I know you would be watching over me all through this journey called life... whenever I look next to me, I feel like you… — Santonu Kumar Dhar Copy Share Image
Working on an adaptation is not as satisfying, because it's not your original work: you're interpreting. With 'L.A. Confidential,' I loved the book. In… — Brian Helgeland Copy Share Image
I am a former newspaper reporter turned church secretary turned vampire novelist. I wrote my first complete novel, 'Nice Girls Don't Have Fangs,' at… — Molly Harper Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“As a historical novelist, there is very little I like more than spending time sorting through boxes of old letters, diaries, maps, trinkets, and… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
A downside to being a successful novelist? Wow - I can't imagine one. — Andrew Sean Greer Copy Share Image
