Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
I had thought of writing, actually, and that later on I'd be a novelist.
The great thing about being a novelist is that you organize your own day.
Love of place is one of the characteristics I enjoy most about novelists.
Well I'm not a novelist. I've only written one book and that is a memoir.
Not all novelists are power-hungry madman. Some are power-hungry madwomen.
Whether he be an original or a plagiarist, man is the novelist of himself.
Human nature provides the lyrics, and we novelists just compose the music.
I'm not a philosopher. I am the next thing to a jock, which is a novelist.
Historians tell the story of the past, novelists the story of the present.
Novelists should never allow themselves to weary of the study of real life.
Compared to the big 19th-century novelists, I've got a slim volume of work.
As a novelist, I'm endlessly fascinated by human behavior and interactions.
Nothing marks a man's character better than his attraction to intelligence.
I am not much of a researcher as a novelist; I write mainly from experience.
A novelist has a specific poetic license which also applies to his own life.
The novel, for me, was an accident. I really don't consider myself a novelist.
A very important thing is not to make up your mind that you are any one thing.
God gets the great stories. Novelists must make do with more mundane fictions.
For a novelist, it's kind of an onerous burden to represent an entire culture.
To be successful in life what you need is education, not literacy and degrees.
Don't be a novelist --- be a statistician. Much more scope for the imagination.
I don't really consider myself a novelist, it just came out purely by accident.
You could say that all novels are spy novels and all novelists are spy masters.
Before I became a suspense novelist, I wrote romantic suspense as Alicia Scott.
Unfortunately for novelists, real life is getting way too funny and far-fetched.
No matter how little a man has he will find that he will always settle for less.
All novelists should live in two different worlds: a real one and an unreal one.
I'm a novelist, that's how I make my livelihood, and I concentrate on the novels.
Every novelist should write something for children at least once in his lifetime.
A person is, among all else, a material thing, easily torn and not easily mended.
I do think there's some aspect of being a novelist that is a little crazy making.
I'm not a novelist, I'm a storyteller. There is no art in what I do, no mystique.
I thought I was your destination. Looks like I was just another stop on the line.
Two things a novelist can do with a hat: Talk through it or pull a rabbit from it.
Sometimes I think that novelists suffer from P.C.S.: Perpetual Childhood Syndrome.
Today there are a lot of novelists who seem to be writing to be reviewed, not read.
And then, as if written by the hand of a bad novelist, an incredible thing happened.
I believe that only poetry counts ... A great novelist is first of all a great poet.
Great novelists are philosopher novelists - that is, the contrary of thesis-writers.
James Salter has talents on the page we novelists would sell souls to the devil for.
For a novelist, the gaps in a story are as intriguing as material that still exists.
The novelist, quite rightly, fears the psychoanalyst as both an enemy and a usurper.
The bicycle, the bicycle surely, should always be the vehicle of novelists and poets.
I think, in common with a lot of novelists, I wasn't the most athletic guy at school.
Drawing Dead is a brilliant noir from one of Australia's most exciting new novelists.
I’ve always thought a novelist only has one character and that is himself or herself.
Where does any novelist pick up any character? For the most part, in town, to be sure.
Like all novelists, I'm interested in the filters between reality and the imagination.
Lawrence Kelter is an exciting new novelist, who reminds me of an early Robert Ludlum.
The real novelist, the perfectly simple human being, could go on, indefinitely imaging.