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 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

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

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

— Taiye Selasi

When I give myself over to a good novel, I surrender to the truths fashioned from one writer's heart, mind and soul. I do…

— Julia Glass

I'm the opposite of those writers who believe that my work is sacrosanct and cannot be touched.

— Vikas Swarup

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

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

— Gillian Flynn

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

— David Mitchell

“you can’t empathize, if you can’t or aren’t willing to put yourself into someone else’s place with all the compassion and insight you can…

— Joe Mynhardt

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