Top Novelists Quotes Collection
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Life is a very bad novelist. It is chaotic and ludicrous.Collection: Novelists
I knew Id always be a second-rate academic, and I thought, Well, Id rather be a second-rate novelist or even a third-rate one.Collection: Novelists
Sometimes seeing everything just gets in the way.Collection: Novelists
God pity the poor novelist.Collection: Novelists
Not all novelists are power-hungry madman. Some are power-hungry madwomen.Collection: Novelists
You tell me your favorite novelists and I'll tell you whom you vote for, or whether you vote at all.Collection: Novelists
I wrote four novels, but then I realized that the world didn't need me to be a novelist, but the world could use me as a nonfiction writer.Collection: Novelists
The essay is a wonderful medium. I might mention that some writers who longed to be novelists were better as essayists: Sontag, Baldwin, Vidal, Mary McCarthy, Mailer.Collection: Novelists
Lawrence Kelter is an exciting new novelist, who reminds me of an early Robert Ludlum.Collection: Novelists
The complexion of a novelist is seldom rosy (Paul Bailey once announced to a heavy-hearted audience of novelists at PEN that we have always been an ugly tribe). We are engaged in indoor activity, haemorrhoidal, prone to chillblains, poor of circulation.Collection: Novelists
To what degree are historians chroniclers of the truth and to what degree are they just novelists, frankly?Collection: Novelists
The few really great-the major novelists ... are significant in terms of the human awareness they promote; awareness of the possibilities of life.Collection: Novelists
As a novelist, I ask of myself only that I tell the truth and that I tell it beautifully.Collection: Novelists
I guess I've always been an aspiring novelist. I went to Princeton and wrote a novel for my thesis.Collection: Novelists
Every Observer writer wants to be a novelist.Collection: Novelists
The business of the poet and the novelist is to show the sorriness underlying the grandest things and the grandeur underlying the sorriest things.Collection: Novelists
Everything written, if it has anything in it, will offend someone, and if the mere taking of offence was to amount to a licence to kill the offender, well the world would be sadly underpopulated of novelists, columnists, bloggers, and the writers of editorials.Collection: Novelists
I would never have been a novelist without working as a psychologist...it was a great education in human nature.Collection: Novelists
I want to be a popular novelist who's also serious, or a serious novelist who's also very accessible.Collection: Novelists
Salvation is an individual relationship with God. I've always considered myself to be a devotional poet, and I consider myself to be a devotional novelist.Collection: Novelists
The novelist is frequently considered to be an impediment.Collection: Novelists
The novelist works neither to correct nor to condone, not at all to comfort, but to make what's told alive.Collection: Novelists
The lesson you have to learn as novelist is how to be collaborative, and how to say, "I don't get to dictate this."Collection: Novelists
... the novelist is bound by the reasonable possibilities, not the probabilities, of his culture.Collection: Novelists
Southerners make good novelists: they have so many stories because they have so much family.Collection: Novelists
Personally, I have never wished I were a male novelist.Collection: Novelists
I'm a natural novelist. I'm interested in the person and the group, and how they mesh. And one of the ways I don't want them to mesh is for the person to be subsumed into the group.Collection: Novelists
I always wanted to be a fiction writer, but I couldn't figure out how you could be a novelist and make any money, which continues to be a problem for novelists the world over.Collection: Novelists
Proust was the greatest novelist of the twentieth century, just as Tolstoy was in the nineteenth.Collection: Novelists
I'm more influenced by novelists than I am by filmmakers.Collection: Novelists
To speak today of a famous novelist is like speaking of a famous cabinetmaker or speedboat designer. Adjective is inappropriate to noun.Collection: Novelists
Universities are filled with poets and novelists conducting demure and careful lives in imitation of Eliot and Forster and those others who (through what seems to be have been discretion) made it.Collection: Novelists
A novelist can’t be without a kimono and pen!(Shigure)Collection: Novelists
I don't get involved in casting, budgets, location or promotion. Just the script. And, of course, the promotional tour. Which is fine with me - I'm a novelist.Collection: Novelists
Novelists never have to footnote.Collection: Novelists
I'm a novelist. Fortunately I don't have to rule the world.Collection: Novelists
No novelists any good except me. Sovietski -- yah! Nastikoff -- bah! I spit me of zem all. No novelists anywhere any good except me. P. G. Wodehouse and Tolstoi not bad. Not good, but not bad. No novelists any good except me.Collection: Novelists
A novelist is on the cusp between someone who knows everything and someone who knows nothing.Collection: Novelists
I'm not a philosopher. I am the next thing to a jock, which is a novelist.Collection: Novelists
Naturally a direct comparison of terrorist and novelist is complete nonsense. But there was once a time when the novelist also had some influence on how his contemporaries thought, the way they saw the world, the way they lived.Collection: Novelists
I'm a novelist, period. An American novelist.Collection: Novelists
It is less the business of the novelist to tell us what happened than to show how it happened.Collection: Novelists
One connection I see between novelists and terrorists is that we both attempt to alter consciousness.Collection: Novelists
If you act like a victim, you are likely to be treated as one.Collection: Novelists
What terrorists gain, novelists lose.Collection: Novelists
Charlie Huston, who showran the first season [of Powers], is a novelist, and likes to internalize fiction as a novelist does.Collection: Novelists
Henry James claim that if you want to be a novelist you should be somebody on whom nothing is lost.Collection: Novelists
The novel is very much alive, indeed. In Toronto at the Sixth Annual International Festival of Authors (October 1985) I listened to novelists by the dozen.Collection: Novelists
I would like to spend the rest of my days in a place so silent–and working at a pace so slow–that I would be able to hear myself living.Collection: Novelists
For a novelist, the gaps in a story are as intriguing as material that still exists.Collection: Novelists