Best Novelists Sayings

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Whenever I become discouraged (which is on alternate Tuesdays, between three and four) I lift my spirits by remembering: The artists are on our side!… — Howard Zinn
I wouldn't care to speculate about what it is in Westlake's psyche that makes him so good at writing about Parker, much less what it… — Terry Teachout
With the marketing pressures driving the book world today, it's much easier to get the author of a memoir on a television show than a… — David Halberstam
I don’t think ‘science fiction’ is a very good name for it, but it’s the name that we’ve got. It is different from other kinds… — Ursula K. Le Guin
Let's put it this way: if you are a novelist, I think you start out with a 20 word idea, and you work at it… — Eric Carle
There's a curious knot that binds novelists and terrorists...Years ago I used to think it was possible for a novelist to alter the inner life… — Don DeLillo
Novels are fictions and therefore they tell lies, but through those lies every novelist attempts to tell the truth about the world. — Paul Auster
I would rather win souls than be the greatest king or emperor on earth; I would rather win souls than be the greatest general that… — Reuben Archer Torrey
The biggest downside to being a novelist is writing the novel. — Unknown Author
I am the luckiest novelist in the world. I was a first-time novelist who wasn't awash in rejection slips, whose manuscript didn't disappear in slush… — Vikas Swarup
The novelist's ambition is not to do something better than his predecessors but to see what they did not see, say what they did not… — Milan Kundera
Bitter criticism caused the sensitive Thomas Hardy, one of the finest novelists ever to enrich English literature, to give up forever the writing of fiction.… — Dale Carnegie
In a rough way the short story writer is to the novelist as a cabinetmaker is to a house carpenter. — Annie Proulx
Today we can say that at last the director writes the film. The image--its plastic composition and the way it is set in time, because… — Andre Bazin
The difficulty of saying I-a phrase from the East German novelist Christa Wolf. But once having said it, as we realize the necessity to go… — Adrienne Rich
In order for a long piece of work to engage a novelist over an extended period of time, it has to deal with questions that… — Donna Tartt
The job of the novelist is to invent: to embroider, to color, to embellish, to entertain, to make things up. The art of what I… — Donna Tartt
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
Most contemporary novelists, especially the American and the French, are too subjective, mesmerized by private demons; theyre enraptured by their navels and confined by a… — Truman Capote
It is in their 'good' characters that novelists make, unawares, the most shocking self- revelations. — C.S. Lewis

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