"A novelist needs to know his own strong……" — David Mitchell

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• No poet or novelist wishes he were the only one who ever lived, but most of them wish they were… — Wystan Hugh Auden
• Dostoevsky is such a bad writer it is hard to take him seriously as a novelist, though he is a… — John Banville
• With a novelist, like a surgeon, you have to get a feeling that you've fallen into good hands - someone… — Saul Bellow
• And when I'd be reporting in Israel, Palestinians would say, the Jews they're not like us, and the Jews would… — Geraldine Brooks
• Not until my middle thirties did I consider myself a novelist. — Rita Mae Brown
• A novelist should not be too intelligent either, although... he may be permitted to be an intellectual. — Anthony Burgess
• I am not an academic who happens to have written a novel. I am a novelist who happens to be… — A. S. Byatt
• I hated being a novelist when I was 20 - I had nothing to write about. — A. S. Byatt
• It's like a novelist writing far out things. If it makes a point and makes sense, then people like to… — Johnny Cash
• I was going to be a great woman novelist. Then the war came along and I think it's hard for… — Julia Child
• That's what a good crime novelist - any good novelist - should do with you: play with your perceptions while… — Harlan Coben
• Novelist-Citizen of Two Countries Interpreter of his Generation on both Sides of the Sea. — Henry James

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