Imagination Quote by Darrell Huff

[Statistics] Fiction in its most uninteresting form.

— Evan Esar

Being a novelist, you can roam around with a story and indulge yourself.

— Gillian Flynn

I had thought of writing, actually, and that later on I'd be a novelist.

— Francois Truffaut

I am not much of a researcher as a novelist; I write mainly from experience.

— Mohsin Hamid

I've always wanted to be a novelist, so I just try to write really great narrative.

— Peter Heller

My primary ambition is to be a fiction writer... Being a critic wasn't an aspiration of mine.

— Walter Kirn

Like all novelists, I'm interested in the filters between reality and the imagination.

— Hisham Matar

No wonder you want to be a writer. How can you not, with all that behind you? You practically are a novel already.

— Sylvia Brownrigg

I always wanted to be a fiction writer, but I couldn't figure out how you could be a novelist and make any money, which…

— Anna Quindlen

I wanted to be a novelist for so long.

— Alice Sebold

I didn't intend to be a novelist. I didn't intend to be anything. I thought I'd be a journalist.

— Alex Garland

Novelists should be free to write whatever they want, to let their imaginations roam as close to or as removed from reality as they…

— Sarah Weinman