Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
Never say you know the last word about any human heart.
you're not a bad person because you want to be yourself.
I have been born more times than anybody except Krishna.
I'm a novelist, not a social scientist or a commentator.
Novelists do not swing on the same pendulums as critics.
I like novelists who can create other interesting worlds.
I'm more influenced by novelists than I am by filmmakers.
Life is a very bad novelist. It is chaotic and ludicrous.
My father was a screenwriter, but he was also a novelist.
Don't be someone that searches, finds and then runs away.
The novelist is frequently considered to be an impediment.
Woman novelists seem to have a reputation for being dowdy.
Anyone can love a rose, but it takes a lot to love a leaf.
Every novelist should possess a hermaphroditic imagination.
I'm a novelist. Fortunately I don't have to rule the world.
To be a novelist, all I need is a pen and a piece of paper.
Novelists should be like scientists, dissecting the cadaver.
I am a better novelist than a poet, playwright, or essayist.
An artist is a man who says a difficult thing in a simple way
I owe everything I am and everything I will ever be to books.
The role of the artist is to make the revolution irresistible
Not until my middle thirties did I consider myself a novelist.
Novelists are too often assumed to write veiled autobiography.
The makers of the short story have rarely been good novelists.
If you act like a victim, you are likely to be treated as one.
The biggest downside to being a novelist is writing the novel.
A novelist needs to know his own strong points and weak points.
I'm at the point where going forward is easier than going back.
The novel is just fine: It's novelists who aren't doing so well.
All of us contain Music & Truth, but most of us can't get it out.
As an historical novelist - there are few jobs more retrospective.
Work is against human nature. The proof is that it makes us tired.
The novelist helps us to see things we might not notice otherwise.
Didn't they realize that the only way to change things was to act?
We are mere journeymen, planting seeds for someone else to harvest.
It is better to be young in your failures than old in your successes.
Novelists tell that piece of truth hidden at the bottom of every lie.
The passion for fact in a raw state is a peculiarity of the novelist.
It's my belief that people enter your life at exactly the right time.
Memories do not always soften with time; some grow edges like knives.
A novelist is an elephant, but an elephant who must pretend to forget.
The novelist teaches the reader to comprehend the world as a question.
I hated being a novelist when I was 20 - I had nothing to write about.
The function of the novelist... is to comment upon life as he sees it.
It is when we are most lost that we sometimes find our truest friends.
I want to write books that unlock the traffic jam in everybody's head.
Anthony Powell was the most European of 20th-century British novelists.
Be proud of your scars. They remind you that you have the will to live.
As a child I was an inveterate liar. As opposed to now, I am a Novelist.