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When I was 30 or so - by that time I had become an assistant D.A. - I decided I would try to write a… — William Landay
It's hard for me to believe that a shy, bespectacled college graduate like Brad Meltzer who's a novelist and a father is a really setting… — Grant Morrison
As a novelist, I'm endlessly fascinated by human behavior and interactions. — Juliet Marillier
A woman journalist in England asked me why Americans usually wrote about their childhood and a past that happened only in imagination, why they never… — John Steinbeck
The dominant and most deep-dyed trait of the journalist is his timorousness. Where the novelist fearlessly plunges into the water of self-exposure, the journalist stands… — Janet Malcolm
For me, as a beginning novelist, all other living writers form a control group for whom the world is a placebo. — Nicholson Baker
By measuring individual human worth, the novelist reveals the full enormity of the State — Ian Mcewan
One more recent novelist to come along is Cormac McCarthy. Him, I like. — Leslie Fiedler
As a novelist, I suppose I can say that I'm highly articulate. But I know, as a person, in other ways, I'm not always articulate.… — Graham Swift
Farber had a huge effect on me as a writer. I don't mean I write like him. Farber is, first of all, a great stylist,… — Greil Marcus
To sing a song is quite different than to write a poem. I'm not and never will be a novelist, but to write a novel… — Sam Shepard
Noir is dead for me because historically, I think it's a simple view. I've taken it as far as it can go. I think I've… — James Ellroy
I think the hardest part of writing is revising. And by that I mean the following: A novelist has to create the piece of marble… — Chaim Potok
The great thing about being a novelist is that you organize your own day. — Sophie Kinsella
As you know, I am a novelist, and I really want to write novels. But I knew enough about the Dreyfus case to understand immediately… — Louis Begley
I don't think I'm a natural novelist. Plot is definitely one of my weaker points. I've been working on it a long time, and it's… — Rick Bass
I think a novelist must be more tender with living or 'real' people. The moral imperative of having been entrusted with their story looms before… — Rick Bass
Yeah, I have the detail-obsessed, controlling personality of a novelist, but I somehow ended up writing plays. — Annie Baker
I'm always determined that as a novelist I'm going to go out there and research my characters very thoroughly before I start writing. — Chris Cleave
So, how to stay inside the world of entertainment without actually getting another job? I felt the only logical answer was to become a novelist.… — Lee Child
All my siblings became artists. One's a novelist, my brother is a painter, my sister was a costume designer. — Caio Fonseca
Before I became a suspense novelist, I wrote romantic suspense as Alicia Scott. — Lisa Gardner
Freud was just a novelist. — Peter Ackroyd
And I didn't grow up wanting to be a director. I grew up wanting to be a writer, so for me, that was always the… — David Benioff
The idea of being a novelist is really romantic, but it's kind of the same as being president of the United States - it's not… — Richard Paul Evans

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