Novelists Quotes

478 Novelists quotes by 343 unique authors

I'm a failed poet. Maybe every novelist wants to write poetry first, finds he can't and then tries the short story which is the most… — William Faulkner
Think about what artists, novelists and poets have in common: the ability to engage in metaphorical thinking, linking seemingly unrelated ideas, such as, 'It is… — Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
I must say a few words about memory. It is full of holes. If you were to lay it out upon a table, it would… — David Ebershoff
When I'm writing a novel, I'm dealing with a double life. I live in the present at the same time that I live in the… — John Phillips
Brings [O'Brian's] achievement to a new height....Such is O'Brian's power to possess the imagination that I found I was living in his world as much… — Alan Judd
Show me a novelist – or, indeed, a reader – who wasn’t a socially awkward, self-conscious adolescent, prone to clumsiness and excessive reading and I’ll…… — Unknown Author
Ashton Ford will come as something of a surprise to those of you who have been with me over the years. This is not the… — Don Pendleton
All novelists should live in two different worlds: a real one and an unreal one. — John Fowles
For a novelist, the gaps in a story are as intriguing as material that still exists. — Sara Sheridan
As an historical novelist – there are few jobs more retrospective. — Sara Sheridan
I do not travel. I am not much of an extrovert, and I'm not much interested in extroverted objects. I do not care for the… — Will Cuppy
RICE-WATER, n. A mystic beverage secretly used by our most popular novelists and poets to regulate the imagination and narcotize the conscience. — Ambrose Bierce
We live in an age in which the imagination of the novelist is helpless against what he knows he is going to read in tomorrow's… — Philip Roth
If the rewards to authors go down, simple economics says there will be fewer authors. It's not that people won't burn with the passion to… — Scott Turow
The detective story itself is in a dilemma. It is a vein which is in danger of being worked out, the demand is constant, the… — Cyril Connolly
After I convinced them that I was a harmless novelist, I actually got them to give me a tour of the harem - which is… — Dorothy Dunnett
The memoirist, like the poet and the novelist, must engage the world, because engagement makes experience, experience makes wisdom, and finally it's the wisdom-or rather… — Vivian Gornick
I don't like to read novels where the novelist tells me what to think about the situation and the characters. I prefer to discover for… — Frederick Wiseman
Lawrence Kelter is an exciting new novelist, who reminds me of an early Robert Ludlum. — Nelson DeMille
The materials of the novelist must be real; they must be gathered from the field of humanity by his actual observation. — Goldwin Smith
The most common human act that writing a novel resembles is lying. The working novelist lies daily, very complexly and at great length. If not… — William Gibson
Dreaming is the day job of novelists, but sharing our dreams is a still more important task for us. We cannot be novelists without this… — Haruki Murakami
It is at least worth arguing that there is a modicum of the creative novelist in all of us, and that this absorption with how… — Humphrey Bogart
To call Clive Barker a 'horror novelist' would be like calling the Beatles a 'garage band'... He is the great imaginer of our time. He… — Quentin Tarantino
Readers no longer need novelists to tell us what it's like to cross the world on a ship or fight a war. In the twenty-first… — Walter Mosley

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