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I cannot and do not live in the world of discretion, not as a writer, anyway. I would prefer to, I assure you - it… — Philip Roth
Is any novelist going to recognize the moment when he or she has nothing more to say? It is a brave thing to admit. And… — Julian Barnes
Rules such as "Write what you know," and "Show, don't tell," while doubtlessly grounded in good sense, can be ignored with impunity by any novelist… — Tom Robbins
TZETZE (or TSETSE) FLY, n. An African insect ("Glossina morsitans") whose bite is commonly regarded as nature's most efficacious remedy for insomnia, though some patients… — Ambrose Bierce
Amos Oz is one of the finest novelists of this entire period. MY MICHAEL is a beautiful work of great depth and in some indescribable… — Arthur Miller
Between a high, solid wall and an egg that breaks against it, I will always stand on the side of the egg. No matter how… — Haruki Murakami
I think novelists are in the education business, really, but they're not teaching you times tables, they are teaching you responsiveness and morality and to… — Martin Amis
John Lane has long been recognized as one of the South's finest poets and memoirists. This debut establishes him as one of our finest novelists… — Ron Rash
I became fascinated by the fact that people write to give away rather than write to be read. It's the difference between playwrights and novelists. — David Suchet
Tony Vigorito has grown a cult following of thousands for one reason—his stuff is fun to read... It’s… filled with the freshness and the freewheeling… — Kris Saknussemm
A novelist has a specific poetic license which also applies to his own life. — Jerzy Kosinski
On lady novelists: As artists they're rot, but as providers they're oil wells; they gush. Norris said she never wrote a story unless it was… — Dorothy Parker
There's a unique bond of trust between readers and authors that I don't believe exists in any other art form; as a reader, I trust… — Dan Simmons
The essayist has to follow a certain intellectual pattern. The novelist has the advantage of using fantasy, of being subjective. — Manuel Puig
Many novelists take well-defined, precise characters, whose stories are sometimes of mediocre interest, and place them in an important historical context, which remains secondary in… — Raymond Queneau
I would never have been a novelist without working as a psychologist...it was a great education in human nature. — Jonathan Kellerman
Yes, but also one of the problems for a novelist in Ireland is the fact that there are no formal manners. I mean some people… — John McGahern
America may have great poets and novelists, but she never will have more than one necromancer. — Rebecca Harding Davis
Drawing Dead is a brilliant noir from one of Australia's most exciting new novelists. — Adrian McKinty
You get spoiled as a novelist because you get to be the director and the editor, and you play all the parts, but as a… — Jo Nesbo
I do not think men have more talent. There are a great many women in the arts; novelists, painters, sculptors, poets-but the proportion is far… — Dorothy Fields
I resist when someone calls me a novelist: it implies some kind of inherent superiority of the novel. I'm not a novelist, I'm a writer. — Aleksandar Hemon
Most writers are not quick-witted when they talk. Novelists, in particular, drag themselves around in society like gut-shot bears. — Kurt Vonnegut
When they can't win a debate (can they ever?), leftists deploy what the late novelist/philosopher Ayn Rand called the argument from intimidation. Instead of trying… — Don Feder
I had thought of writing, actually, and that later on I'd be a novelist. — Francois Truffaut

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