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Novelist Quotes by Flannery O'Connor
- There was a time when the average reader read a novel simply for the moral he could get out of it, and however na?ve that…
- Manners are of such great consequence to the novelist that any kind will do. Bad manners are better than no manners at all, and because…
- The Catholic novelist in the South will see many distorted images of Christ, but he will certainly feel that a distorted image of Christ is…
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- 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