Novelists Quotes

478 Novelists quotes by 343 unique authors

I'm a novelist, so I can't write about ideas unless they're attached to people. — Julian Barnes
There was a time when the average reader read a novel simply for the moral he could get out of it, and however na?ve that… — Flannery O'Connor
I think it's restrictive to typecast myself as a novelist because I enjoy other forms of expression. I love literature and I love cinema. — Julia Leigh
People really want to believe that there is no fiction. I think they find it much easier to imagine that novelists are writing memoirs, writing… — Mark Leyner
San Francisco has long been a leader in the arts, nurturing generations of painters, sculptors, poets, novelists, playwrights, film-makers, and performing artists and innovators of… — Gavin Newsom
To present a scientific subject in an attractive and stimulating manner is an artistic task, similar to that of a novelist or even a dramatic… — Max Born
For the first-time novelist you've got to get up at 5:30 in the morning and write until 7, make breakfast and go to work. Or,… — Ridley Pearson
I used to describe myself as a comic novelist, but my concerns seem to have darkened over the past few years. — Tom Perrotta
I plot as I go. Many novelists write an outline that has almost as many pages as their ultimate book. Others knock out a brief… — Clive Cussler
Personally, I have never wished I were a male novelist. — Curtis Sittenfeld
The fact is that in this day and age I don't think any novelist can assume that a book will get attention. — Curtis Sittenfeld
Would-be novelists need to bring equal parts arrogance and ignorance to the task before them. The arrogance is almost self-explanatory. Walk into any bookstore or… — Laura Lippman
Nobody asks you to do this. The world out there is not panting after another novelist. We choose it. — Paul Auster
I get work because I'm primarily a novelist but I've become script doctor. I can work back and forth between French and English. — Norman Spinrad
As a novelist, you deepen your characters as you go, adding layers. As a reporter, you try to peel layers away: observing subjects enough to… — Amy Waldman
History is the history of human behavior, and human behavior is the raw material of fiction. Most people recognize that novelists do research to get… — Amy Waldman
As a novelist, I mined my history, my family and my memory, but in a very specific way. Writing fiction, I never made use of… — Ayelet Waldman
Being a novelist is hard for anyone - male or female. You don't get to quit your day job. — Jennifer Weiner
Every genuinely literary style, from the high authorial voice to Foster Wallace and his footnotes-within-footnotes, requires the reader to see the world from somewhere in… — Zadie Smith
The artist deals with what cannot be said in words. The novelist says in words what cannot be said in words. — Barbara Kingsolver
When I was 30 or so - by that time I had become an assistant D.A. - I decided I would try to write a… — William Landay
It's hard for me to believe that a shy, bespectacled college graduate like Brad Meltzer who's a novelist and a father is a really setting… — Grant Morrison
As a novelist, I'm endlessly fascinated by human behavior and interactions. — Juliet Marillier
A woman journalist in England asked me why Americans usually wrote about their childhood and a past that happened only in imagination, why they never… — John Steinbeck
Copywriters, journalists, mainstream authors, ghostwriters, bloggers and advertising creatives have as much right to think of themselves as good writers as academics, poets, or literary… — Sara Sheridan

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