You sound so miserable.” “All novelists are.
I was writing from the time I was 12 years old, but I originally wanted to be a novelist.
Ce-mi place mie este să citesc romanele, nu să le fac autopsia.
Not until my middle thirties did I consider myself a novelist.
I'm a novelist, not a social scientist or a commentator.
Novelists invent characters; poets invent themselves.
A novelist is, like all mortals, more fully at home on the surface of the present than in the ooze of the past.
Novelists should be like scientists, dissecting the cadaver.
A novelist is a person who lives in other people's skins.
It is the job of the novelist to touch the reader.
A Christian novelist tries to describe the world as it is.
Before I became a suspense novelist, I wrote romantic suspense as Alicia Scott.
Novelists congratulate themselves on their creation of this kind of “character” or that kind of “character,” and readers pretend to talk knowingly about “character,” but all it amounts to is that the writers are enjoying themselves writin...
Have tea, might write,” Laura returned.
My father was a screenwriter, but he was also a novelist.
Most novelists write about twisted lives.
Well I'm not a novelist. I've only written one book and that is a memoir.
Historians tell the story of the past, novelists the story of the present.
He was interviewed in the early '60s by a young novelist, Pati Hill.
The novelist must ground his work in faithful study of human nature.
The novelist must look on humanity without partiality or prejudice. His sympathy, like that of the historian, must be unbounded, and untainted by sect or party.
