Always Quote by Orhan Pamuk

I think most novelists I know, certainly including me, feel the novels choose them rather than vice-versa.

— Steve Erickson

Sometimes I think that novelists suffer from P.C.S.: Perpetual Childhood Syndrome.

— Simon Mawer

I think novelists are in the education business, really, but they're not teaching you times tables, they are teaching you responsiveness and morality and…

— Martin Amis

“You may think novelists always have fixed plans to which they work, so that the future predicted by Chapter One is always inexorably the…

— John Fowles

I think novelists perform many useful tasks for their fellow citizens, but one of the most valuable is this: to enable us to see…

— Doris Lessing

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

I sometimes think novelists write about sex in order to avoid boring themselves to death.

— Walker Percy

I am a highly disciplined person. I get up at seven every morning and, still in my pajamas, sit down at my desk where…

— Orhan Pamuk

I'm a relatively disciplined writer who composes the whole book before beginning to execute and write it. Of course, you can't hold - you…

— Orhan Pamuk

The fact of having this very new context, this unheard-of way of working, for me was very pleasant. I didn't feel that I was…

— Abbas Kiarostami

I feel that working with the camera and editing it is actually my strong suit.

— Adam Yauch

I feel that working now is the way for me to learn things, whether it's languages or another activity.

— Elena Roger