Admirable Quote by Michael Palin

I think novelists, when they write their books, end up having occasionally serving a purpose and playing roles that they never really fully either…

— Khaled Hosseini

Novelists are no more moral or certain than anybody else; we are ideologically adrift, and if we are any good then our writing will…

— Andrew O'Hagan

I suspect there are two kinds of novelists. Those who have a point of view and have something to say and then write a…

— Neil Gaiman

Real novelists, those we admire, those we consider timeless in their language and character and scene, those who receive accolades for inventive language and…

— Susan Straight

Authors, she soon decided, were probably best met within the pages of their novels, and were as much creatures of the reader's imagination as…

— Alan Bennett

When I was younger, I wondered if it was possible to be a good person and a writer.

— Karl Ove Knausgard

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

I've come to think of myself as a writer of books.

— Richard Hell

I imagined being a famous writer would be like being like Jane Austen.

— J. K. Rowling

I love writers who are insightful enough to be cynical but choose not to be.

— Brian D. McLaren

“If writing novels - and reading them - have any redeeming social value, it's probably that they force you to imagine what it's like…

— Margaret Atwood

I couldn't be sufficiently interested in human beings to be a writer if I had contempt for human beings.

— Nadine Gordimer