Quotes of: Novelists Keyword

I had a vision of myself as a novelist because that was where I could be serious. I couldn't with music.

Peter Hammill

Alan Moore's writing is almost novelistic. It's very intricate and wordy and smart.

Adrianne Palicki

A novelist can’t be without a kimono and pen!(Shigure)

Fruits Basket, Vol. 1

My mother's husband Harry Bloom was a writer, a novelist, a reporter, and an anti-apartheid activist.

Orlando Bloom

I am a fictionalizing philosopher, not a novelist.

Philip K. Dick

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

Khaled Hosseini

A filmmaker has almost the same freedom as a novelist has when he buys himself some paper.

Stanley Kubrick

Some novelists want to give people in history a voice because they have been denied it in the past.

Antony Beevor

The pull of history has been a strong theme in my life as a novelist.

Anita Shreve

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

Kate Atkinson

The great thing about being a novelist is that you organize your own day.

Sophie Kinsella

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.

Mos Def

A novelist has a specific poetic license which also applies to his own life.

Jerzy Kosinski

Personally, I have never wished I were a male novelist.

Curtis Sittenfeld

I don't think any novelist should be concerned with literature.

Jacqueline Susann

An urban novelist never minds a little decay.

Jane Smiley

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

Margaret Atwood

Novelists embody plural selves all the time. What are characters, after all, if not other selves?

Siri Hustvedt

I'm a middle-class, middle-brow novelist. And that's it. It amuses me.

Anita Brookner

The novelist, quite rightly, fears the psychoanalyst as both an enemy and a usurper.

Will Self

The novel, for me, was an accident. I really don't consider myself a novelist.

Wole Soyinka