Novelist Wants Quotes
- I'm a failed poet. Maybe every novelist wants to write poetry first, finds he can't and then tries the short story which is the most… — William Faulkner
- A woman journalist in England asked me why Americans usually wrote about their childhood and a past that happened only in imagination, why they never… — John Steinbeck
- 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… — E. M. Forster
- The novelist wants to know how things will turn out; the historian already knows how things turned out, but wants to know why they turned… — Michael Korda