Novelist Quotes

365 Novelist quotes by 274 unique authors

Without a doubt, I was born to want to make cinema, but the kind of cinema I want to make is not like commercial movies,… — Francis Ford Coppola
I'm a novelist, not a social scientist or a commentator. — Rachel Cusk
The historian will tell you what happened. The novelist will tell you what it felt like. — E L Doctorow
I thought I wanted to be a journalist or a novelist. — Lena Dunham
Well I'm not a novelist. I've only written one book and that is a memoir. — Carly Fiorina
My greatest fear is feeling like a professional novelist. Somebody who creates characters, who sits down and has pieces of paper taped to the wall… — Jonathan Safran Foer
I am not much of a researcher as a novelist; I write mainly from experience. — Mohsin Hamid
For a novelist, it's kind of an onerous burden to represent an entire culture. — Khaled Hosseini
Sigmund Freud was a novelist with a scientific background. He just didn't know he was a novelist. All those damn psychiatrists after him, they didn't… — John Irving
For a novelist, a given historic situation is an anthropologic laboratory in which he explores his basic question: What is human existence? — Milan Kundera
Being a novelist and being a mother have exactly coincided in my life: the call from my agent saying that I had a contract for… — Barbara Kingsolver
A filmmaker has almost the same freedom as a novelist has when he buys himself some paper. — Stanley Kubrick
The novelist teaches the reader to comprehend the world as a question. There is wisdom and tolerance in that attitude. In a world built on… — Milan Kundera
If a person is not talented enough to be a novelist, not smart enough to be a lawyer, and his hands are too shaky to… — Norman Mailer
In journalism just one fact that is false prejudices the entire work. In contrast, in fiction one single fact that is true gives legitimacy to… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
I was a novelist first. But in the mid-'80s, I did work in television for ten years. And yes, that was frequently the reaction to… — George R. R. Martin
I've been many kinds of writers in my career: novelist; tele-playwright; short story writer. As a high-school student, I wrote amateur pieces for fanzines, and… — George R. R. Martin
The suspense of a novel is not only in the reader, but in the novelist, who is intensely curious about what will happen to the… — Mary McCarthy
It is not the first duty of the novelist to provide blueprints for insurrection, or uplifting tales of successful resistance for the benefit of the… — Ian Mcewan
Historian: an unsuccessful novelist. — H. L. Mencken
A novelist needs to know his own strong points and weak points. — David Mitchell
I'm a novelist, that's how I make my livelihood, and I concentrate on the novels. — David Mitchell
I am worrying about my country. I feel I have a responsibility as a novelist to do something. — Haruki Murakami
As a novelist, you could say that I am dreaming while I am awake, and every day I can continue with yesterday's dream. Because it… — Haruki Murakami
Sometimes I wonder why I'm a novelist right now. There is no definite career reason why I became a writer. Something happened, and I became… — Haruki Murakami

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