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365 Novelist quotes by 274 unique authors

As far as he can achieve it, readability is as important for the scientific writer as it is for the novelist. — Donald O. Hebb
I don't mind when people are telling me about their 1971 Firebird, but it's the same thing as people telling me about their car or… — Jonny Greenwood
If a novelist has created vivid characters, interesting relationships, settings the reader can easily imagine, and intriguing stories, a screenwriter has loads to work with.… — Seth Grahame-Smith
All novels are about crime. You'd be hard pressed to find any novel that does not have an element of crime. I don't see myself… — Carl Hiaasen
I'd defend the right for any novelist to experiment with form or language, but if people don't take to it, don't react by making out… — Graham Joyce
To a novelist, fluidity is the ultimate good omen; suddenly difficult problems are simply solved, intractable structural knots loosen themselves, and you come upon the… — Zadie Smith
The Novelist As Teacher”: “I would be quite satisfied if my novels (especially the ones I set in the past) did no more than teach… — Chinua Achebe
The Electroshock Novelist: The Alluring Bad Boy of Literary England Has Always Been Fascinated by Britain's Dustbin Empire. Now Martin Amis Takes On American Excess, — Sam Tanenhaus
As a successful romantic novelist - one of my publishers is Mills & Boon - I create the sort of male heroes that no woman… — P. C. Cast
Although some people think I am a romantic novelist I have always thought of myself as a rather gritty radical historian. — Philippa Gregory
The novelist is the person who spends a lot of his or her day thinking about the human drama and emotional complexity. — Thane Rosenbaum
A novelist must know what his last chapter is going to say and one way or another work toward that last chapter. ... To me… — Leon Uris
The novelist has more and more to say to readers who have less and less time to read: where to find the energy to engage… — Jonathan Franzen
A movie will do in one second, with one image, what it will take a novelist at least a page to describe. — Yann Martel
Two things a novelist can do with a hat: Talk through it or pull a rabbit from it. — Peter S. Prescott
We tend to overestimate what we can do in a short period, and underestimate what we can do over a long period, provided we work… — Gretchen Rubin
Whether he be an original or a plagiarist, man is the novelist of himself. — Jose Ortega y Gasset
But I have seen my obstacles: trivialities, learning and poetry. This last needs explaining: the old artist's readiness to dissolve characters into a haze. Characters… — E. M. Forster
The preoccupation of the novelist: how to capture the living moments, was answered by the diary. You write while you are alive. You do not… — Anais Nin
I'm a novelist who read a lot as a kid. When you grow up on books and then grow up to write books, famous authors… — Bill Vaughan
When it [truth] emerges it often bears out the saying that 'truth is stranger than fiction.' A novelist has to appear plausible, and would hesitate… — Bill Vaughan
The only excuse for a novelist, aside from the entertainment and vicarious living his books give the people who read them, is as a sort… — John Dos Passos
The business of a novelist is, in my opinion, to create characters first and foremost, and then to set them in the snarl of the… — John Dos Passos
I assume that - because you can get degrees in journalism from very reputable universities - I assume that people can be trained to be… — William Gibson
The economy of a novelist is a little like that of a careful housewife who is unwilling to throw away anything that might perhaps serve… — Graham Greene

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