Inspirational Quote by Dean Koontz

What's not realized about good novelists is that they're as competitive as good athletes. They study each other - where the other person is…

— Norman Mailer

I hope I'm not just looked as a writer that is popular but as a writer of literary value.

— Sandra Cisneros

There was never a good biography of a good novelist. There couldn't be. He is too many people if he's any good.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

Any good writer is going to be well-received and is going to not be well-received; that's how you know you're a great writer.

— Karrine Steffans

Isn't it strange that I who have written only unpopular books should be such a popular fellow?

— Albert Einstein

The best of our fiction is by novelists who allow that it is as good as they can give, and the worst by novelists…

— James M. Barrie

“Popular fiction's a strong and viable force in literature. That's why it's popular.”

— Nora Roberts

Good novels are not written, they are rewritten. Great novels are diamonds mined from layered rewrites.

— Piers Paul Read

“If you want to see the best novelist, it's yourself. try to write all your stories on a blank sheet of paper then you'll…

— Miraeniuzz Sanaf

Most good fiction also has a character the writer seems to know more deeply than anyone can actually be known in life, but a…

— Nell Freudenberger

If anyone asks me whether I like being a popular writer, I ask them whether they think I'd rather be an unpopular writer.

— Barbara Taylor Bradford

A good writer sells out everybody he knows, sooner or later.

— Alice McDermott