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- The makers of the short story have rarely been good novelists.
- The businessman who is a novelist is able to drop in on literature and feel no suicidal loss of esteem if the lady is not…
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- 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