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Novelist Quotes by E. M. Forster
- 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…
- A novelist can shift view-point if it comes off. ... Indeed, this power to expand and contract perception (of which the shifting view-point is a…
- The historian records, but the novelist creates.
- A novel is based on evidence, + or -x, the unknown quantity being the temperament of the novelist, and the unknown quantity always modifies the…
- It is the function of the novelist to reveal the hidden life at its source: to tell us more about Queen Victoria than could be…
- People in a novel can be understood completely by the reader, if the novelist can be understood completely by the reader, if the novelist wishes;…
- It is never possible for a novelist to deny time inside the fabric of his novel: he must cling, however lightly, to the thread of…
- 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…
- Expansion, that is the idea the novelist must cling to, not completion, not rounding off, but opening out.
More Novelist Quotes
- No poet or novelist wishes he were the only one who ever lived, but most of them wish they were the only… — 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… — 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… — 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… — 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.… — 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… — Julia Child
- That's what a good crime novelist - any good novelist - should do with you: play with your perceptions while showing you… — Harlan Coben
- Novelist-Citizen of Two Countries Interpreter of his Generation on both Sides of the Sea. — Henry James