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Novelists Quotes: "Whether you're an unpublished novelist or a sixteen-time New York Times bestselling author, you can always improve your craft. You can always become a better writer."

Whether you're an unpublished novelist or a sixteen-time New York Times bestselling author, you can always improve your craft. You can always become a better writer.



Novelists Quotes: "I try very hard to be fair, and I look for ironies. In a way, I live on ironies as a novelist."

I try very hard to be fair, and I look for ironies. In a way, I live on ironies as a novelist.




Novelists Quotes: "The business of the poet and the novelist is to show the sorriness underlying the grandest things and the grandeur underlying the sorriest things."

The business of the poet and the novelist is to show the sorriness underlying the grandest things and the grandeur underlying the sorriest things.



Novelists Quotes: "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."

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.




Novelists Quotes: "Copywriters, journalists, mainstream authors, ghostwriters, bloggers and advertising creatives have as much right to think of themselves as good writers as academics, poets, or literary novelists."

Copywriters, journalists, mainstream authors, ghostwriters, bloggers and advertising creatives have as much right to think of themselves as good writers as academics, poets, or literary novelists.



Novelists Quotes: "Grabbing readers by the imagination is a writer's job."

Grabbing readers by the imagination is a writer's job.



Novelists Quotes: "It is true that novelists are shameless and obey no decent law, and they are not to be trusted on any account, but some Mysteries even they must honor."

It is true that novelists are shameless and obey no decent law, and they are not to be trusted on any account, but some Mysteries even they must honor.




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

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



Novelists Quotes: "I hated being a novelist when I was 20 - I had nothing to write about."

I hated being a novelist when I was 20 - I had nothing to write about.



Novelists Quotes: "Drawing Dead is a brilliant noir from one of Australia's most exciting new novelists."

Drawing Dead is a brilliant noir from one of Australia's most exciting new novelists.



Novelists Quotes: "I realized that my identity as a novelist was private. Only I knew how much of a novelist I was!"

I realized that my identity as a novelist was private. Only I knew how much of a novelist I was!



Novelists Quotes: "RICE-WATER, n. A mystic beverage secretly used by our most popular novelists and poets to regulate the imagination and narcotize the conscience."

RICE-WATER, n. A mystic beverage secretly used by our most popular novelists and poets to regulate the imagination and narcotize the conscience.




Novelists Quotes: "The novelist does not long to see the lion eat grass. He realizes that one and the same God created the wolf and the lamb, then smiled, “seeing that his work was good.”"

The novelist does not long to see the lion eat grass. He realizes that one and the same God created the wolf and the lamb, then smiled, “seeing that his work was good.”



Novelists Quotes: "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."

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.



Novelists Quotes: "I think I'm like most novelists in that my books have gotten farther and farther away from autobiography the longer I've been writing them."

I think I'm like most novelists in that my books have gotten farther and farther away from autobiography the longer I've been writing them.



Novelists Quotes: "I do think there's some aspect of being a novelist that is a little crazy making."

I do think there's some aspect of being a novelist that is a little crazy making.



Novelists Quotes: "If I actually believed that the progress of human understanding depended on our crop of contemporary novelists, I would shoot myself."

If I actually believed that the progress of human understanding depended on our crop of contemporary novelists, I would shoot myself.



Novelists Quotes: "I know I'm a rare person, a trained scientist who writes fiction, because so few contemporary novelists engage with science."

I know I'm a rare person, a trained scientist who writes fiction, because so few contemporary novelists engage with science.



Novelists Quotes: "Henry James claim that if you want to be a novelist you should be somebody on whom nothing is lost."

Henry James claim that if you want to be a novelist you should be somebody on whom nothing is lost.



Novelists Quotes: "I was a novelist before I was a TV screenwriter. Actually, as a kid, I think I'd always wanted to be a writer, but never thought that I would be one."

I was a novelist before I was a TV screenwriter. Actually, as a kid, I think I'd always wanted to be a writer, but never thought that I would be one.



Novelists Quotes: "Horror writers can write about everything in the real world that a mainstream novelist can--plus the supernatural, which is the most fertile field for metaphor imaginable."

Horror writers can write about everything in the real world that a mainstream novelist can--plus the supernatural, which is the most fertile field for metaphor imaginable.



Novelists Quotes: "I'm really influenced by Southern novelists, not many movie people. More like John Faulkner, William Faulkner, Erskine Caldwell, Flannery O'Connor, John Steinbeck, and people like that."

I'm really influenced by Southern novelists, not many movie people. More like John Faulkner, William Faulkner, Erskine Caldwell, Flannery O'Connor, John Steinbeck, and people like that.



Novelists Quotes: "Charlie Huston, who showran the first season [of Powers], is a novelist, and likes to internalize fiction as a novelist does."

Charlie Huston, who showran the first season [of Powers], is a novelist, and likes to internalize fiction as a novelist does.



Novelists Quotes: "I couldn't be a novelist for instance. It feels like a very lonely endeavor. I don't know that I could survive the solitude of that."

I couldn't be a novelist for instance. It feels like a very lonely endeavor. I don't know that I could survive the solitude of that.



Novelists Quotes: "Many thousands of people have had the experience of finding the first friend, and it is none the less a wonder; as great a wonder (pace the novelists) as first love, or even greater."

Many thousands of people have had the experience of finding the first friend, and it is none the less a wonder; as great a wonder (pace the novelists) as first love, or even greater.



Novelists Quotes: "Well I'm not a novelist. I've only written one book and that is a memoir."

Well I'm not a novelist. I've only written one book and that is a memoir.



Novelists Quotes: "I wanted to write about the Korean War, but I had no entry into it that made the kind of sense it needs to make for a novelist."

I wanted to write about the Korean War, but I had no entry into it that made the kind of sense it needs to make for a novelist.



Novelists Quotes: "Novelists should never allow themselves to weary of the study of real life."

Novelists should never allow themselves to weary of the study of real life.



Novelists Quotes: "I think, in common with a lot of novelists, I wasn't the most athletic guy at school."

I think, in common with a lot of novelists, I wasn't the most athletic guy at school.



Novelists Quotes: "Outcasts may grow up to be novelists and filmmakers and computer tycoons, but they will never be the athletic ruling class."

Outcasts may grow up to be novelists and filmmakers and computer tycoons, but they will never be the athletic ruling class.



Novelists Quotes: "Morality in the novel is the trembling instability of the balance. When the novelist puts his thumb in the scale, to pull down the balance to his own predilection, that is immorality."

Morality in the novel is the trembling instability of the balance. When the novelist puts his thumb in the scale, to pull down the balance to his own predilection, that is immorality.



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

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



Novelists Quotes: "I always think the novelist should go to the culture's dark places and poke around. Pose a lot of hard questions."

I always think the novelist should go to the culture's dark places and poke around. Pose a lot of hard questions.



Novelists Quotes: "I have an English literature degree. I wanted to be the next great American novelist from a very early age, but I put it aside for a while, because I got very realistic at one point."

I have an English literature degree. I wanted to be the next great American novelist from a very early age, but I put it aside for a while, because I got very realistic at one point.



Novelists Quotes: "I’ve had the pleasure of hearing The Novelists perform live. They are gifted songwriters and talented musicians with strong lead voices. This is a band with lots of heart & soul."

I’ve had the pleasure of hearing The Novelists perform live. They are gifted songwriters and talented musicians with strong lead voices. This is a band with lots of heart & soul.



Novelists Quotes: "Maybe with "Californication" the character was partly based on Rick Moody. I read him and Jay McInerney, the templates for this bad boy novelist."

Maybe with "Californication" the character was partly based on Rick Moody. I read him and Jay McInerney, the templates for this bad boy novelist.



Novelists Quotes: "I'm a novelist, that's how I make my livelihood, and I concentrate on the novels."

I'm a novelist, that's how I make my livelihood, and I concentrate on the novels.



Novelists Quotes: "A novelist needs to know his own strong points and weak points."

A novelist needs to know his own strong points and weak points.



Novelists Quotes: "I became fascinated by the fact that people write to give away rather than write to be read. It's the difference between playwrights and novelists."

I became fascinated by the fact that people write to give away rather than write to be read. It's the difference between playwrights and novelists.



Novelists Quotes: "Not all popular novelists are good, but all good novelists are, sooner or later, popular."

Not all popular novelists are good, but all good novelists are, sooner or later, popular.



Novelists Quotes: "The Novelist, afraid his ideas may be foolish, slyly puts them in the mouth of some other fool and reserves the right to disavow them."

The Novelist, afraid his ideas may be foolish, slyly puts them in the mouth of some other fool and reserves the right to disavow them.



Novelists Quotes: "You become a serious novelist by living long enough."

You become a serious novelist by living long enough.



Novelists Quotes: "One connection I see between novelists and terrorists is that we both attempt to alter consciousness."

One connection I see between novelists and terrorists is that we both attempt to alter consciousness.



Novelists Quotes: "I'm a novelist, period. An American novelist."

I'm a novelist, period. An American novelist.



Novelists Quotes: "I think novelists perform many useful tasks for their fellow citizens, but one of the most valuable is this: to enable us to see ourselves as others see us."

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



Novelists Quotes: "I do not think men have more talent. There are a great many women in the arts; novelists, painters, sculptors, poets-but the proportion is far lower in the field of song writing."

I do not think men have more talent. There are a great many women in the arts; novelists, painters, sculptors, poets-but the proportion is far lower in the field of song writing.



Novelists Quotes: "I want to be a popular novelist who's also serious, or a serious novelist who's also very accessible."

I want to be a popular novelist who's also serious, or a serious novelist who's also very accessible.



Novelists Quotes: "Things that appear on the front page of the newspaper as 'fact' are far more dangerous than the games played by a novelist, and can lead to wars."

Things that appear on the front page of the newspaper as 'fact' are far more dangerous than the games played by a novelist, and can lead to wars.



Novelists Quotes: "It is the job of the novelist to touch the reader."

It is the job of the novelist to touch the reader.