Every Novelist Quotes
- Every novelist has a different purpose-and often several purposes which might even be contradictory. — Irwin Shaw
- Novels are fictions and therefore they tell lies, but through those lies every novelist attempts to tell the truth about the world. — Paul Auster
- I'm a failed poet. Maybe every novelist wants to write poetry first, finds he can't and then tries the short story which is the most… — William Faulkner