Novelists Quotes

I had always thought that the idea of love at first sight was one of those things invented by lady novelists from the South with three names.

We may, without offending any laws of good taste, require of an architect, as we do of a novelist, that he should be not only correct, but entertaining.

Novelists may be able to seek advice from readers and editors, but in the end, it is up to them to get the book right.

I would never have been a novelist without working as a psychologist...it was a great education in human nature.

Whatever fame a novelist my attain, it's always kind of an anonymous one. I can go anywhere, and no one knows who I am.

Novelists get to direct the perfect films. We get to cast every part. We dress the set exactly as we wish.

Whether he be an original or a plagiarist, man is the novelist of himself.

I am a better novelist than a poet, playwright, or essayist.

My job as the novelist is to present the whole case, then the reader gets to render her verdict.

I think it's restrictive to typecast myself as a novelist because I enjoy other forms of expression. I love literature and I love cinema.

He looks like a man.' 'How descriptive,' Susan said in a droll tone. 'Remind me never to advise you to seek work as a novelist.

As a novelist, I'm endlessly fascinated by human behavior and interactions.

Alternate history fascinates me, as it fascinates all novelists, because 'What if?' is the big thing.

I like novelists who can create other interesting worlds.

Poets think in short lines. Unless you're Samuel Beckett, Twitter might be more difficult for novelists.

For a novelist, it's kind of an onerous burden to represent an entire culture.

Thank God for novelists. Thank God there are people willing to write everything down. Otherwise, so much would be forgotten.

Novelists are people who have discovered that they can dampen their neuroses by writing make-believe. We will keep on doing that no matter what, while offering loftier explanations.

I thought I wanted to be a journalist or a novelist.

One more recent novelist to come along is Cormac McCarthy. Him, I like.

I always counsel aspiring novelists that passion is the most important quality for a writer to possess - technique can be taught, but that relentless desire to write has to come from within.

Curiosity is the prime requisite of the novelist.

Wanting to know all kinds of things is perfect for novelists, because novelists are generalists. We're not specialists in anything, except, hopefully, writing.

The novelist helps us to see things we might not notice otherwise.

I have two sisters, and I think siblings are always going to be irresistible for novelists. They have been throughout time and they'll continue to be.

Proust was the greatest novelist of the twentieth century, just as Tolstoy was in the nineteenth.

Once upon a time, novelists of the 19th century, such as Charles Dickens, published in serial form.

Some of what we read in classical literature is not relative to our condition, but then many women novelists and poets have turned it upside down and told the stories from the other point of view.

Novelists are stamina merchants, grinders, nine-to-fivers, and their career curves follow the usual arc of human endeavour.

Novelists don't age as quickly as philosophers, who often face professional senility in their late twenties.

To capture the human cost of fallen empire with all its horror and absurdity, Sheets offers the right combination: the political insight of a top reporter and the power of a novelist.

The passion for fact in a raw state is a peculiarity of the novelist.

A novelist is an elephant, but an elephant who must pretend to forget.

I read a lot of graphic novels - some of my favorites graphic novelists or artists are Rebecca Kraatz, Gabrielle Bell, Graham Roumieu, Tom Gauld, and Renee French.

The novelist is frequently considered to be an impediment.

Here's a secret. Many novelists, if they are pressed and if they are being honest, will admit that the finished book is a rather rough translation of the book they'd intended to write.

I saw novelists as being admirable people and I thought... I thought... maybe, one day, I could be one of them.

The novelist teaches the reader to comprehend the world as a question.

I am not much of a researcher as a novelist; I write mainly from experience.

I'm inspired by playwrights, novelists, poets: The value of language has been a lifelong passion of mine. I enjoy it. I'm good at it.

You could do math early, but there are no brilliant 16-year-old novelists. They don't know the human condition yet.

I consider myself foremost a novelist with the intent of crafting stories that people will remember.

I'm a novelist at heart. How's that? And that's how I make my living, is I write novels.

A book of great beauty and manically exquisite insight with a wild and deadly humor . . . The only American novelist who may conceivably be possessed by genius.

Nobody asks you to do this. The world out there is not panting after another novelist. We choose it

The biggest book for me, when I was fifteen, was Crime and Punishment, which I read in a kind of fever. When I put it down, I thought, if this is what novels are then I want to be a novelist.

Be born anywhere, little embryo novelist, but do not be born under the shadow of a great creed, not under the burden of original sin, not under the doom of Salvation.

Today there are a lot of novelists who seem to be writing to be reviewed, not read.

Freud was just a novelist.

Two things a novelist can do with a hat: Talk through it or pull a rabbit from it.