Novelists Quotes

478 quotes by 350 authors

Stories in which the destruction of society occurs are explorations of social fears and issues that filmmakers, novelists, playwrights, painters have been examining for a… — J. J. Abrams
Once upon a time, novelists of the 19th century, such as Charles Dickens, published in serial form. — Margaret Atwood
I was once a graduate student in Victorian literature, and I believe as the Victorian novelists did, that a novel isn't simply a vehicle for… — Margaret Atwood
No poet or novelist wishes he were the only one who ever lived, but most of them wish they were the only one alive, and… — Wystan Hugh Auden
Kingsley Amis was one of a trio of brilliant comic novelists who made English literature sparkle in the twentieth century. — Russell Baker
Dostoevsky is such a bad writer it is hard to take him seriously as a novelist, though he is a wonderful philosopher. — John Banville
The novel is resilient, and so are novelists. — John Banville
With a novelist, like a surgeon, you have to get a feeling that you've fallen into good hands - someone from whom you can accept… — 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 same things about… — Geraldine Brooks
Not until my middle thirties did I consider myself a novelist. — Rita Mae Brown
One of the admirable features of British novelists is that they have no scruple about setting their stories in foreign settings with wholly foreign personnel. — James Buchan
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 academically. — A. S. Byatt
I hated being a novelist when I was 20 - I had nothing to write about. — A. S. Byatt
Novelists are not equipped to make a movie, in my opinion. They make their own movie when they write: they're casting, they're dressing the scene,… — John le Carre
It's like a novelist writing far out things. If it makes a point and makes sense, then people like to read that. But if it's… — 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 today, don't you,… — Julia Child
That's what a good crime novelist - any good novelist - should do with you: play with your perceptions while showing you everything in plain… — Harlan Coben
Novelists are stamina merchants, grinders, nine-to-fivers, and their career curves follow the usual arc of human endeavour. — Martin Amis
Novelist-Citizen of Two Countries Interpreter of his Generation on both Sides of the Sea. — Henry James

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