Quotes of: Novelists Keyword

They know a million tricks, those novelists. Take Doctor Goebbels; that's how he started out, writing fiction. Appeals to the base lusts that hide in everyone no matter how respectable on the surface. Yes, the novelist knows humanity, how worthless t...

The Man in the High Castle

The fact is that in this day and age I don't think any novelist can assume that a book will get attention.

Curtis Sittenfeld

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

Martin Amis

For a novelist, the gaps in a story are as intriguing as material that still exists.

Sara Sheridan

I like novelists who can create other interesting worlds.

Kazuo Ishiguro

The novel is just fine: It's novelists who aren't doing so well.

Russell Smith

I started my career as a novelist. 'Veronica Mars' was first imagined as a novel.

Rob Thomas

America may have great poets and novelists, but she never will have more than one necromancer.

Rebecca Harding Davis

The novelist's intuition for the sacred differs from the translator's interrogation of the sacred.

Cynthia Ozick

I am happy that I'm a better novelist than a screenwriter.

Graeme Simsion

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

Juliet Marillier

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

David Mitchell

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

David Mitchell

Writing tends to be very deliberate. A novelist could probably run a military campaign with some success. They could certainly run a country.

Colm Toibin

I would love to see young writers come out of college and know there is a possibility to be a novelist.

Pat Conroy

As a novelist, I'm incredibly lucky to make a living, but that doesn't mean that I don't lie awake at four o'clock in the morning, worrying.

David Nicholls

Novelists are always resisting autobiographical readings of their work, because they know how false those can be.

Jeffrey Eugenides

As an historical novelist - there are few jobs more retrospective. I dumped science at an early age.

Sara Sheridan

Çünkü bana göre siyaset, en sonunda bizim gibi olmayanları kararlılıkla anlamama, romancılık ise anlama işidir.

The Naive and the Sentimental Novelist

As a novelist, you have to be free. Books can't be an act of filial duty.

Richard Flanagan

Jane Austen was an extraordinary woman; to actually be able to survive as a novelist in those days - unmarried - was just unheard of.

Julie Walters