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Novelists Quotes by Ian Mcewan
- By measuring individual human worth, the novelist reveals the full enormity of the State
- Novelists have to be adept at controlling the flow of information, and, most crucially, they have to be in charge of the narrative.
- 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…
- How can a novelist achieve atonement when with her absolute power of deciding outcomes, she is also god?
- How can a novelist achieve atonement when, with her absolute power of deciding outcomes, she is also God? There is no one, no entity or…
- You could say that all novels are spy novels and all novelists are spy masters.
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- I was once a graduate student in Victorian literature, and I believe as the Victorian novelists did, that a novel isn't simply… — Margaret Atwood
- No poet or novelist wishes he were the only one who ever lived, but most of them wish they were the only… — 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… — 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… — Geraldine Brooks
- Not until my middle thirties did I consider myself a novelist. — Rita Mae Brown
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- A novelist should not be too intelligent either, although... he may be permitted to be an intellectual. — Anthony Burgess