Adept Quote by Ian Mcewan

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

— Maria Semple

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

— Maria Semple

The business of a novelist is, in my opinion, to create characters first and foremost, and then to set them in the snarl of…

— John Dos Passos

The novelist has a responsibility to adhere to the facts as closely as possible, and if they are inconvenient, that's where the art comes…

— Hilary Mantel

Even when it comes to writing fiction, how do you encompass all this stuff that's right on the tip of your tongue? You have…

— Paul Beatty

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

— Elizabeth George

Fiction is often most powerful when the author is exploring an issue - and not writing like a know-it-all who has the perfect answer.

— Gillian Cross

The only difficulty is to know what bits to choose and what to leave out. Novel-writing is not creation, it is selection.

— Winifred Holtby

Novels are one of the few remaining areas of narrative storytelling where one person does almost all of the creative heavy lifting.

— Charles Stross

“The most exciting part of writing a novel is when the characters take control of the story”

— Brandt Legg

I think that, as a writer, while it's your job to construct stories, you have to navigate your way through them with your heart.

— Abi Morgan

“We have our responsibilities as readers and even our importance. The standards we raise and the judgments we pass steal in the air and…

— Virginia Woolf