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The novelist, quite rightly, fears the psychoanalyst as both an enemy and a usurper. — Will Self
The British and American literary worlds operate in an odd kind of symbiosis: our critics think our contemporary novelists are not the stuff of greatness… — Will Self
An urban novelist never minds a little decay. — Jane Smiley
Novelists of a conservative or more purely aesthetic bent hold up better on the surface, but their novels go in and out of fashion according… — Jane Smiley
Some novelists are luckier than others in the eras of their formative intellectual years, but all Weltanschauungs return, which means that most novelists have at… — Jane Smiley
I read all of Rider Haggard's books. For me he had the romance of Africa with a little bit of mysticism. I'm delighted to be… — Wilbur Smith
I recognize myself to be an intensely naive person. Most novelists are, despite frequent pretensions to deep socio-political insight. — Zadie Smith
I don't really consider myself a novelist, it just came out purely by accident. — Wole Soyinka
The novel, for me, was an accident. I really don't consider myself a novelist. — Wole Soyinka
Novelists have always had complete freedom to pretty much tell their story any way they saw fit. And that's what I'm trying to do. — Quentin Tarantino
To be a novelist, all I need is a pen and a piece of paper. — Quentin Tarantino
Mark Twain was a great traveler and he wrote three or four great travel books. I wouldn't say that I'm a travel novelist but rather… — Paul Theroux
Jane Austen was an extraordinary woman; to actually be able to survive as a novelist in those days - unmarried - was just unheard of. — Julie Walters
Writing tends to be very deliberate. A novelist could probably run a military campaign with some success. They could certainly run a country. — Colm Toibin
God pity the poor novelist. — Steven Millhauser
The Catholic novelist in the South will see many distorted images of Christ, but he will certainly feel that a distorted image of Christ is… — Flannery O'Connor
I don't think any novelist should be concerned with literature…literature should be left to essayists. — Jacqueline Susann
The point I would make is that the novelist and the historian are seeking the same thing: the truth – not a different truth: the… — Shelby Foote
That perhaps is your task--to find the relation between things that seem incompatible yet have a mysterious affinity, to absorb every experience that comes your… — Virginia Woolf
Southerners make good novelists: they have so many stories because they have so much family. — Gore Vidal
How can a novelist achieve atonement when with her absolute power of deciding outcomes, she is also god? — Ian Mcewan
Novelists have, on the average, about the same IQs as the cosmetic consultants at Bloomingdale’s department store. Our power is patience. We have discovered that… — Kurt Vonnegut
The business of the novelist is not to relate great events, but to make small ones interesting. — Arthur Schopenhauer
In overlooking, denying, evading this complexity--which is nothing more than the disquieting complexity of ourselves--we are diminished and we perish; only within this web of… — James A. Baldwin
I said it before and I’ll say it again: books are dead, plays are dead, poems are dead: there’s only movies. Music is still okay,… — Stephen Fry

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