Color Quote by Donna Tartt

The job of the novelist is to invent: to embroider, to color, to embellish, to entertain, to make things up. The art of what…

— Donna Tartt

I believe, in a funny way, the job of the novelist is to be out there on the fringes and speaking for an experience…

— Donna Tartt

The essence of a novelist is to invent things and speak the truth, at the same time.

— Jaume Cabre

A poet or novelist will invent interruptions to avoid long consecutive days at the ordained page; and of these the most pernicious are other…

— Shirley Hazzard

Concentrate, don't embroider.

— Spencer Tracy

A recipe is not meant to be followed exactly - it is a canvas on which you can embroider.

— Roger Verge

A writer should not so much write as embroider on paper; the work should be painstaking, laborious.

— Anton Chekhov

“Write what you know and embroider the rest - Sue Cross”

— Sue Cross

“You’ve already said all that. Don’t embroider on it, but prove it!”

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

I think that's the most important job of a novelist - to bring authority to their writing.

— Maria Semple

I think thats the most important job of a novelist - to bring authority to their writing.

— Maria Semple

My job as the novelist is to present the whole case, then the reader gets to render her verdict.

— Joshua Mohr

It is the job of the novelist to touch the reader.

— Elizabeth George

“What I like about the job of being a novelist, and at the same time what I find so exhausting about it, is that…

— Ann Patchett

I'm a songwriter, and I understand artistic licence. We can embellish, go on little journeys and explore our inner selves. It can be quite…

— Laura Marling