Any Quote by Jacqueline Susann

I don't think any novelist should be concerned with literature…literature should be left to essayists.

— Jacqueline Susann

I think a novelist must be more tender with living or 'real' people. The moral imperative of having been entrusted with their story looms…

— Rick Bass

Dostoevski does not tell you what to think about his legend, but he requires that you think about it. The novelist was a deeply…

— Suzanne Fields

The fact is that in this day and age I don't think any novelist can assume that a book will get attention.

— Curtis Sittenfeld

I always think the novelist should go to the culture's dark places and poke around. Pose a lot of hard questions.

— Dana Spiotta

I think of myself as a narrative artist. I don't think of myself as a novelist or screenwriter or playwright. All of those modalities…

— Ayad Akhtar

I'm a novelist. Fortunately I don't have to rule the world.

— Salman Rushdie

As an historical novelist - there are few jobs more retrospective. I dumped science at an early age.

— Sara Sheridan

“Amanda herself couldn't understand why her writing was so different from her own personality. Her pen seemed to take on a life of its…

— Lisa Kleypas

The novelist's intuition for the sacred differs from the translator's interrogation of the sacred.

— Cynthia Ozick

A novelist should not be too intelligent either, although... he may be permitted to be an intellectual.

— Anthony Burgess

“I have from the first felt sure that the writer, when he sits down to commence his novel, should do so, not because he…

— Anthony Trollope