Quotes of: Novelist Keyword

Being a novelist is hard for anyone - male or female. You don't get to quit your day job.

Jennifer Weiner

Novelists do not write as birds sing, by the push of nature. It is part of the job that there should be much routine and some daily stuff on the level of carpentry.

William Golding

Although some people think I am a romantic novelist I have always thought of myself as a rather gritty radical historian.

Philippa Gregory

I meet kids now who become novelists, poets, write for the theater and movies, who were simply inspired by what they saw during the Spoleto Festival.

Pat Conroy

A movie will do in one second, with one image, what it will take a novelist at least a page to describe.

Yann Martel

An author needs a lot more than one person to succumb to his literary seductive charms, but, like Saul, he must realize that he doesn't have to--and indeed cannot--capture the hearts of every possible reader out there. No matter who the writer, his i...

The Fiction Editor, the Novel, and the Novelist: A Book for Writers, Teachers, Publishers, and Anyone Else Devoted to Fiction

You may think novelists always have fixed plans to which they work, so that the future predicted by Chapter One is always inexorably the actuality of Chapter Thirteen. But novelists write for countless different reasons: for money, for fame, for revi...

The French Lieutenant's Woman

If human nature does alter it will be because individuals manage to look at themselves in a new way. Here and there people — a very few people, but a few novelists are among them — are trying to do this. Every institution and vested interest is ...

Aspects of the Novel

God pity the poor novelist.

Edwin Mullhouse: The Life and Death of an American Writer 1943-1954 by Jeffrey Cartwright

Passionate attraction to someone of the opposite sex will make a hero or a fool of a novelist each time.

Europa: Limited Time Edition

The best way in the world for breaking up a writer's block is to write a lot.

On Becoming a Novelist

The novelist teaches the reader to comprehend the world as a question. There is wisdom and tolerance in that attitude. In a world built on sacrosanct certainties the novel is dead.

Milan Kundera

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.

Daniel Suarez

And then, as if written by the hand of a bad novelist, an incredible thing happened.

The Amulet of Samarkand

Few novelists can be more scrupulous than Jane Austen as to the phrasing of the thoughts of their characters.

Jane Austen And Her Art

Tea was more than boiling water. There were decisions to be made and a frame of mind to develop, no matter how imperceptible.

The Novelist

As someone with a novelistic background, I just didn't have much interest in creating stories by committee. I don't think you necessarily get the best story through that approach.

Nic Pizzolatto

If a person is not talented enough to be a novelist, not smart enough to be a lawyer, and his hands are too shaky to perform operations, he becomes a journalist.

Norman Mailer

I'm a successful novelist, and I've been a lucky one, so I don't want to cry the poor mouth. Writing has never been easy.

Richard Flanagan

Sometimes writing a novel is not unlike having a baby. You'd have to ask a female novelist to compare the pain.

Salman Rushdie

The writing talent of Edinburgh is textured - we have poets, novelists, non-fiction writers, dramatists and more.

Sara Sheridan