Novelist Quotes

365 Novelist quotes by 274 unique authors

I believe, in a funny way, the job of the novelist is to be out there on the fringes and speaking for an experience that… — Donna Tartt
The function of the novelist... is to comment upon life as he sees it. — Frank Norris
As a novelist, I have a somewhat higher soapbox to stand on than most people do when it comes to talking back to the merchants… — L. Neil Smith
You do not conceive a novel as easily as you conceive a child, nor even half as easily as you create nonfiction work. A journalist… — Zelda Popkin
My life is actually very boring. The life of a bestselling novelist sounds like it ought to be spectacularly glamorous and fun, but in fact… — Jane Green
Love. Children are loving, they dont gossip, they dont complain, theyre just open-hearted. Theyre ready for you. They dont judge. They dont see things by… — Michael Jackson
When I was in fourth grade, a novelist came to talk to my English class. She told us that being an author meant sitting at… — J. Courtney Sullivan
Life is a very bad novelist. It is chaotic and ludicrous. — Javier MarÃas
To speak today of a famous novelist is like speaking of a famous cabinetmaker or speedboat designer. Adjective is inappropriate to noun. — Gore Vidal
To capture the human cost of fallen empire with all its horror and absurdity, Sheets offers the right combination: the political insight of a top… — Martin Cruz Smith
Yes, one uses what one knows, but autobiography means something else. I should never be able to write a real autobiography; I always end by… — Alberto Moravia
The novelist teaches the reader to comprehend the world as a question, — Milan Kundera
The novelist works neither to correct nor to condone, not at all to comfort, but to make what's told alive. — Eudora Welty
Both the historian and the novelist view history as the struggle of a tiny minority, able and determined to make judgments, which is up against… — Lion Feuchtwanger
I wanted nothing less than to be a fiction writer when I was a kid. If you had told me I would be an artist… — Caleb Carr
I never see a novel as a film while I'm writing it. Mostly because novels and films are so different, and I'm such an internal… — Alice Hoffman
I am a master of fiction. I am also the greatest crime novelist who ever lived. I am to the crime novel in specific what… — James Ellroy
A whim, a passing mood, readily induces the novelist to move hearth and home elsewhere. He can always plead work as an excuse to get… — C S Forester
A playwright must be his own audience. A novelist may lose his readers for a few pages; a playwright never dares lose his audience for… — Terence Rattigan
I'm not a novelist, I'm a storyteller. There is no art in what I do, no mystique. — Alistair Maclean
Good girls like myself need subversion. Being solemn, I aspire to comedy. Being a novelist, I aspire to the musical. Being organized, I aspire to… — Janet Burroway
I'm mostly a novelist these days, but I have written short stories in Fantasy, Science Fiction and horror. — Sarah Zettel
I think of a designer as a processor of information — like a scriptwriter or a novelist. — Freeman Thomas
In a sense, the first (if not necessarily the prime) function of a novelist, of ANY artist, is to entertain. If the poem, painting, play… — Brigid Brophy
God is a novelist. He uses all sorts of literary devices: alliteration, assonance, rhyme, synecdoche, onomatopoeia. But of all of these, His favorite is foreshadowing.And… — Lauren F. Winner

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