Books Quote by Tom King

I think, television and comics, what's appealing to me as a writer about both of those mediums is that they allow you to sort…

— Travis Beacham

Because I'm a novelist, I think in terms of structure. The way I keep going is through structure. It's what inspires me and pushes…

— Jess Walter

“Daemonic compulsiveness can kill as easily as it can save. The true novelist must be at once driven and indifferent. Van Gogh never sold…

— John Gardner

The only way to be a novelist, to think that you can create something others will give themselves up to for a dozen hours…

— Nicola Griffith

The reason I write is because I have questions. What I don't want is for people to forget that I'm a novelist and think…

— Sheila Heti

I don't think I knew that you could be a novelist. I think a lot of my students are in the same condition. I…

— Rachel Cusk

Let's put it this way: if you are a novelist, I think you start out with a 20 word idea, and you work at…

— Eric Carle

I'm a novelist. I think fiction is important or I wouldn't be doing it, but most of it's bad.

— Dale Peck

Often I think the novels I read won't make very good movies - I better not say which I'm looking at for potential films!…

— Christopher Hampton

I think all novels are contemporary. When people went to see 'Antony-Cleopatra' at the Globe in the 16th century, they were not going to…

— Richard Flanagan

I do think novels are overlooked. I did write one some years ago that I think is quite good, called 'The End of the…

— Lydia Davis

I think that novels are one of the best means that we have to communicate both with the past and with the future.

— Emily Barton