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- The biggest downside to being a novelist is writing the novel.
- Screenwriting is a terrible way to make a living and I always try to talk anyone out of it. Until you sit in a story…
- So far as love or affection is concerned, psychologists have failed in their mission. The little we know about love does not transcend simple observation,…
- The difference between a novelist and someone who tinkers around with writing is this: novelists finish their books.
- By the respectable terms of the modern literary profession, novelists do not preach. And, in fact, there has probably not been a less respectable novelist…
- 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……
- I really do believe some people are naturally novelists and some people are short story writers. For me, when I was in middle school or…
- There are Five kinds of lies: Lies, Damned Lies, Statistics, Politicians quoting statistics, and Novelists quoting Politicians on Statistics
More Novelists Quotes
- Stories in which the destruction of society occurs are explorations of social fears and issues that filmmakers, novelists, playwrights, painters have been… — J. J. Abrams
- Once upon a time, novelists of the 19th century, such as Charles Dickens, published in serial form. — Margaret Atwood
- 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
- One of the admirable features of British novelists is that they have no scruple about setting their stories in foreign settings with… — James Buchan
- A novelist should not be too intelligent either, although... he may be permitted to be an intellectual. — Anthony Burgess