Book Quote by Nancy Etchemendy

A novelist is a person who lives in other people's skins.

— Anonymous

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

The hard part about writing a novel is finishing it.

— Ernest Hemingway

I think it's true that, as is often observed, the writer is always an outsider. A writer is someone who is telling stories about…

— Elif Batuman

I believe that a writer is a person who writes. An author is a person who has written.

— Dean Wesley Smith

A writer is someone who writes!

— Pat Schneider

“I am certain that a novelist is someone who attributes a different reality-value to the characters and events of his story than to those…

— Alain Robbe-Grillet

Maybe someone's who's a different kind of writer [would think otherwise] - someone who'd be just as comfortable writing essays on what their novels…

— Chang-Rae Lee

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

A writer is the one who loves to write . . . on and about anything . . . And this clears that I am a writer!!

— Anamika Mishra

I've never really understood that whole thing of writers avoiding other writers' novels while they're working on their own.

— Ned Beauman

A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.

— Thomas Mann