Novelist Quotes

365 Novelist quotes by 274 unique authors

I probably would have gone the M.F.A. route except I was a dad at 19, and it made more sense to go to work for… — Jess Walter
The life of a bestselling novelist sounds like it ought to be spectacularly glamorous and fun, but in fact I spend most of my time… — Jane Green
Even when I was living below the poverty line as a novelist, I was still living better than 99.5% of the human population of the… — Jonathan Ames
If a novelist tells you something she knows or thinks, and you believe her, that is not because either of you think she is God,… — A. S. Byatt
You learn different things through fiction. Historians are always making a plot about how certain things came to happen. Whereas a novelist looks at tiny… — A. S. Byatt
I was an only child. I lost both my parents. By the time I was twenty I was bald. I'm homosexual. In the way of… — Alan Bennett
Years ago I used to think it was possible for a novelist to alter the inner life of the culture. Now bomb-makers and gunman have… — Don Delillo
The syndicates take the strip and sell it to newspapers and split the income with the cartoonists. Syndicates are essentially agents. Now, can you imagine… — Bill Watterson
If you are a novelist of a certain type of temperament, then what you really want to do is re-invent the world. God wasn't too… — John Barth
The best gifts to give: To your friend, loyalty; To your enemy, forgiveness; To your boss, service; To a child, a good example; To your… — Oren Arnold
Well, to be honest I think I'm a better short story writer than a novelist. Novels I find very hard, hours and hours, weeks and… — Eric Brown
He was interviewed in the early '60s by a young novelist, Pati Hill. — George Plimpton
I don't think any novelist should be concerned with literature. — Jacqueline Susann
So, when I write a piece of fiction I select my characters and settings and so on because they have a bearing, at least to… — John Gardner
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… — Unknown Author

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