Acceptance Quote by Haruki Murakami

Like most novelists, I like to do exactly the opposite of what I'm told. It's in my nature as a novelist. Novelists can't trust…

— Haruki Murakami

“Novelists are a special breed. They cannot genuinely trust anything they have not seen with their own eyes or touched with their own hands…

— Haruki Murakami

There's a unique bond of trust between readers and authors that I don't believe exists in any other art form; as a reader, I…

— Dan Simmons

There is a big part of me that has a writer's sensibility. And so that's how I think. That's how I pursue truth. That's…

— Barack Obama

I write my novels personally, desperately and non-negligently. When I write my novels, I think about my novels only, and never do other works.

— Haruki Murakami

As a novelist, I ask of myself only that I tell the truth and that I tell it beautifully.

— Taiye Selasi

“People often ask me what advice I have for writers, and I reply that the most important responsibility I believe a writer has is…

— Clive Barker

And when I read, and really I do not read so much, only a few authors, - a few men that I discovered by…

— Vincent Van Gogh

“Novelists don’t have answers and ones that do I'm not sure you should trust.”

— David Mitchell

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

— Gillian Flynn

I've always seen writing as a way of telling the truth. For me, writing is about truth. I have always tried to be faithful…

— Edmund White

Novel-writing is a bit like deception. You lie as little as you possibly can. That's the way I do it, anyway.

— Joseph O'Neill