Quotes of: Novelists Keyword

I hated being a novelist when I was 20 - I had nothing to write about.

A. S. Byatt

I believe, in a funny way, the job of the novelist is to be out there on the fringes and speaking for an experience that has not really been spoken for.

Donna Tartt

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

Mohsin Hamid

God gets the great stories. Novelists must make do with more mundane fictions.

Richard Flanagan

You could say that all novels are spy novels and all novelists are spy masters.

Ian Mcewan

The job of the novelist is to invent: to embroider, to color, to embellish, to make things up.

Donna Tartt

The novelist is the vestigial bone on the body cinema. We're like the little toe that can be cut off.

Don Winslow

The historian will tell you what happened. The novelist will tell you what it felt like.

E. L. Doctorow

The materials of the novelist must be real; they must be gathered from the field of humanity by his actual observation.

Goldwin Smith

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

Jose Saramago

As a child I was an inveterate liar. As opposed to now, I am a Novelist.

John Green

I've always liked the idea that writing is a form of travel. And I started my writing career as a mystery novelist for adults.

Rick Riordan

The truth is that I know very few novelists who have been satisfied with the adaptation of their books for the screen.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

As a novelist, I ask of myself only that I tell the truth and that I tell it beautifully.

Taiye Selasi

Yeah, I have the detail-obsessed, controlling personality of a novelist, but I somehow ended up writing plays.

Annie Baker

A novelist should not be too intelligent either, although... he may be permitted to be an intellectual.

Anthony Burgess

As a novelist, I remain interested in the notion of a single reckless act and its consequences.

Anita Shreve

is famous, not I. I am an obscure, doubly obscure, novelist with an unpronounceable name.

Vladimir Nabokov

I started writing short fiction very briefly, as I imagine is the case for some novelists.

William Gibson

I don't really consider myself a novelist, it just came out purely by accident.

Wole Soyinka

Nonfiction that uses novelistic devices and strategies to shape the work. That's material that I really like.

Rick Moody