Novelists Quotes

478 Novelists quotes by 343 unique authors

I thought I wanted to be a journalist or a novelist. — Lena Dunham
Well I'm not a novelist. I've only written one book and that is a memoir. — Carly Fiorina
My greatest fear is feeling like a professional novelist. Somebody who creates characters, who sits down and has pieces of paper taped to the wall… — Jonathan Safran Foer
I am not much of a researcher as a novelist; I write mainly from experience. — Mohsin Hamid
For a novelist, it's kind of an onerous burden to represent an entire culture. — Khaled Hosseini
Sigmund Freud was a novelist with a scientific background. He just didn't know he was a novelist. All those damn psychiatrists after him, they didn't… — John Irving
I like novelists who can create other interesting worlds. — Kazuo Ishiguro
I know I'm a rare person, a trained scientist who writes fiction, because so few contemporary novelists engage with science. — Barbara Kingsolver
For a novelist, a given historic situation is an anthropologic laboratory in which he explores his basic question: What is human existence? — Milan Kundera
Being a novelist and being a mother have exactly coincided in my life: the call from my agent saying that I had a contract for… — Barbara Kingsolver
A filmmaker has almost the same freedom as a novelist has when he buys himself some paper. — Stanley Kubrick
The light that radiates from the great novels time can never dim, for human existence is perpetually being forgotten by man and thus the novelists'… — Milan Kundera
The novelist teaches the reader to comprehend the world as a question. There is wisdom and tolerance in that attitude. In a world built on… — Milan Kundera
If a person is not talented enough to be a novelist, not smart enough to be a lawyer, and his hands are too shaky to… — Norman Mailer
The truth is that I know very few novelists who have been satisfied with the adaptation of their books for the screen. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
In journalism just one fact that is false prejudices the entire work. In contrast, in fiction one single fact that is true gives legitimacy to… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
I don't know who said that novelists read the novels of others only to figure out how they are written. I believe it's true. We… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
I was a novelist first. But in the mid-'80s, I did work in television for ten years. And yes, that was frequently the reaction to… — George R. R. Martin
I've been many kinds of writers in my career: novelist; tele-playwright; short story writer. As a high-school student, I wrote amateur pieces for fanzines, and… — George R. R. Martin
Things were easier for the old novelists who saw people all of a piece. Speaking generally, their heroes were good through and through, their villains… — W. Somerset Maugham
The suspense of a novel is not only in the reader, but in the novelist, who is intensely curious about what will happen to the… — Mary McCarthy
Novelists have to be adept at controlling the flow of information, and, most crucially, they have to be in charge of the narrative. — Ian Mcewan
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… — Ian Mcewan
Historian: an unsuccessful novelist. — H. L. Mencken
A novelist needs to know his own strong points and weak points. — David Mitchell

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