Novelist Quote by Marilyn Celeste Morris Download Open image ““Novelist: Telling lies for fun and profit.”” — Marilyn Celeste Morris ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Novelist Telling lies
“A fiction writer weaves a fabric of lies in hopes of revealing deeper human truths.” — Wally Lamb Copy Share Image
“An author never lies. We do, however tend to speak in a fictional prose.” — Carl Henegan Copy Share Image
“I don’t know about lying for novelists. I look at some of the great novelists, and I think the reason they are great is… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
“The most dangerous lie we tell ourselves is that writing novels shouldn't feel like a job.” — Kameron Hurley Copy Share Image
“...he was after all, a novelist...and a novelist was simply a fellow who got paid to tell lies. The bigger the lies, the better… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“story telling is not a career, it's a calling. I've been writing true and compelling news my entire professional life. My novels are packs… — Glen Carter Copy Share Image
“Writers are compulsive liars desperately trying to tell themselves the truth.” — Anthony Marais Copy Share Image
“Fiction is the great liar that tells the truth about how the world really lives.” — Dorothy Allison Copy Share Image
The novelist's intuition for the sacred differs from the translator's interrogation of the sacred. — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
As an historical novelist - there are few jobs more retrospective. I dumped science at an early age. — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
I maintain that if you're a novelist and you go into an art museum, you'll come out a better novelist. And if you paint… — John Hawkes Copy Share Image
“A warm sunny evening, the plash and gurgle of the waves in the rock pools, the rush of the cold gin. I thought for… — William Boyd Copy Share Image
“I know you would be watching over me all through this journey called life... whenever I look next to me, I feel like you… — Santonu Kumar Dhar Copy Share Image
Working on an adaptation is not as satisfying, because it's not your original work: you're interpreting. With 'L.A. Confidential,' I loved the book. In… — Brian Helgeland Copy Share Image
I am a former newspaper reporter turned church secretary turned vampire novelist. I wrote my first complete novel, 'Nice Girls Don't Have Fangs,' at… — Molly Harper Copy Share Image
Playing with different genres and perspectives and ways of telling stories is one of the perks of being a novelist, but at the same… — Linn Ullmann Copy Share Image
“As a historical novelist, there is very little I like more than spending time sorting through boxes of old letters, diaries, maps, trinkets, and… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
A downside to being a successful novelist? Wow - I can't imagine one. — Andrew Sean Greer Copy Share Image
