Quotes of: Novelists Keyword

Kingsley Amis was one of a trio of brilliant comic novelists who made English literature sparkle in the twentieth century.

Russell Baker

I'm a big, bombastic novelist and thrill-ride guy. I'm never going to win the National Book Award.

Seth Grahame-Smith

Sometimes I think that novelists suffer from P.C.S.: Perpetual Childhood Syndrome.

Simon Mawer

I'm a novelist by trade and my job is to write a story rather than reconstruct actual events.

Sara Sheridan

A playwright must be his own audience. A novelist may lose his readers for a few pages; a playwright never dares lose his audience for a minute.

Terence Rattigan

If the novelist shares his or her problems with the characters, he or she is able to study his personal unconscious.

Manuel Puig

I saw novelists as being admirable people and I thought... I thought... maybe, one day, I could be one of them.

Michael Palin

If you only write when inspired, you may be a fairly decent poet, but you'll never be a novelist.

Neil Gaiman

Some Pulitzer winners - novelists - have confided to me that getting the prize screwed them up. It messed with their heads. That hasn't been my experience.

Jeffrey Eugenides

Form is, in a way, death. A novelist's obligation is to break free from the form, even though he knows that this will also be seen as artificial and distanced from life.

Karl Ove Knausgaard

If you need proof of how the oral relates to the written, consider that many great novelists, including Joyce and Hemingway, never submitted a piece of work without reading it aloud.

Frank Delaney

Back in the 1980s, when I was a lowly editorial assistant by day and trying to be a novelist by night, no god reigned so supreme as the god of literary prose.

Jean Hanff Korelitz

I have that special sort of novelist body of knowledge which is extraordinarily wide and very, very shallow. So I can usually answer the questions on 'Jeopardy,' but never the bonus question.

Christopher Moore

I was one of those kids who never wanted to be anything but a novelist. And I don't know a lot of people who truly live the life that they dreamed of.

Scott Turow

I had always thought that the idea of love at first sight was one of those things invented by lady novelists from the South with three names.

John Perry Barlow

Novelists have to be adept at controlling the flow of information, and, most crucially, they have to be in charge of the narrative.

Ian Mcewan

Dostoevsky is such a bad writer it is hard to take him seriously as a novelist, though he is a wonderful philosopher.

John Banville

I'm a novelist, so I can't write about ideas unless they're attached to people.

Julian Barnes

But here's the thing: what you do as a screenwriter is you sell your copyright. As a novelist, as a poet, as a playwright, you maintain your copyright.

Beth Henley

I think, in common with a lot of novelists, I wasn't the most athletic guy at school.

Chris Cleave

For years, I felt I was a novelist, but now I know I can write short fiction.

Jill McCorkle