Novelist Quotes

365 quotes by 279 authors

No poet or novelist wishes he were the only one who ever lived, but most of them wish they were the only one alive, and… — Wystan Hugh Auden
Dostoevsky is such a bad writer it is hard to take him seriously as a novelist, though he is a wonderful philosopher. — John Banville
With a novelist, like a surgeon, you have to get a feeling that you've fallen into good hands - someone from whom you can accept… — Saul Bellow
And when I'd be reporting in Israel, Palestinians would say, the Jews they're not like us, and the Jews would say the same things about… — Geraldine Brooks
Not until my middle thirties did I consider myself a novelist. — Rita Mae Brown
A novelist should not be too intelligent either, although... he may be permitted to be an intellectual. — Anthony Burgess
I am not an academic who happens to have written a novel. I am a novelist who happens to be quite good academically. — A. S. Byatt
I hated being a novelist when I was 20 - I had nothing to write about. — A. S. Byatt
It's like a novelist writing far out things. If it makes a point and makes sense, then people like to read that. But if it's… — Johnny Cash
I was going to be a great woman novelist. Then the war came along and I think it's hard for young people today, don't you,… — Julia Child
That's what a good crime novelist - any good novelist - should do with you: play with your perceptions while showing you everything in plain… — Harlan Coben
Novelist-Citizen of Two Countries Interpreter of his Generation on both Sides of the Sea. — Henry James
It is fatal to know too much at the outcome: boredom comes as quickly to the traveler who knows his route as to the novelist… — Paul Theroux
If you want to be a psychological novelist and write about human beings, the best thing you can do is keep a pair of cats. — Aldous Huxley
I write because it gives me the greatest possible artistic pleasure to write. If my work pleases the few I am gratified. As for the… — Oscar Wilde
As a novelist, I tell stories and people give me money. Then financial planners tell me stories and I give them money. — Martin Cruz Smith
What description of clouds and sunsets was to the old novelist, description of scientific apparatus and methods is to the modern Scientific Detective writer. — Hugo Gernsback
It's almost a sort of fairy story tale, just what a novelist would write about a discovery. — Charles Hard Townes
Neanderthal man listened to stories, if one may judge by the shape of his skull. The primitive audience was an audience of shock-heads, gaping around… — E. M. Forster
If you are a novelist of a certain type of termperament, then what you really want to do is re-invent the world. God wasn't too… — John Barth

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