Business Quote by Ursula K. Le Guin

Those who say "it's not personal, it's just business" are lying. All business is personal, and the best business is very personal.

— Rick Lenz

Once you've been around this business long enough, anything is a possibility. It's a business first and foremost. Guys play it because they love…

— Logan Mankins

Between thought and spoken word is a gap where intention can enter, the symbol be twisted aside, and the lie come to be.

— Ursula K. Le Guin

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

I am not an academic who happens to have written a novel. I am a novelist who happens to be quite good academically.

— A. S. Byatt

I think of myself now as a writer, although I wouldn't go as far as to say 'novelist' because that sounds like a Victorian…

— Dawn French

I'm a novelist. Fortunately I don't have to rule the world.

— Salman Rushdie

As an historical novelist - there are few jobs more retrospective. I dumped science at an early age.

— Sara Sheridan

“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

The novelist's intuition for the sacred differs from the translator's interrogation of the sacred.

— Cynthia Ozick

A novelist should not be too intelligent either, although... he may be permitted to be an intellectual.

— Anthony Burgess

“I have from the first felt sure that the writer, when he sits down to commence his novel, should do so, not because he…

— Anthony Trollope