About Quote by Julia Glass

I can have people around a lot more because I'm not always chasing them away so I can work on my novel. My non-novel,…

— Alice Munro

I like to think of myself as an unmediated novelist - or perhaps a national novelist.

— E. L. Doctorow

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

— Gillian Flynn

I resist when someone calls me a novelist: it implies some kind of inherent superiority of the novel. I'm not a novelist, I'm a…

— Aleksandar Hemon

A writer's self-consciousness, for which he is much scorned, is really a mode of interestedness, that inevitably turns outward.

— John Updike

The great thing about novels is that you can be as unshy as you want to be. I'm very polite in person. I don't…

— Nicholson Baker

All my novels are very much directly related to my inner life, even though I'm inventing characters, even though it's fiction, even though it's…

— Paul Auster

Novel-writing is a settling, lovely space. I call it self-indulgent - I feel mildly guilty about it.

— Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor

Writing a memoir has a particularly excited sense of narcissism.

— Bill Ayers

Part of what I love so much about writing is learning about people who are unlike myself and going to places in my writing…

— Nia DaCosta

For me the path to the literary goes through the non - literary. For this reason it surprises me that I am a writer,…

— Gustavo Perez Firmat

The novels that attract me most... are those that create an illusion of transperancy around a knot of human relationships as obscure, cruel and…

— Italo Calvino