Novelists Quotes
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Novelists should be like scientists, dissecting the cadaver.
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Anthony Powell was the most European of 20th-century British novelists.
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What's important is the tolerance. If people are not beating other people up, or shooting them for being different, then that's progress. Even if the ideas that go through their head are fodder for novelists.
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No novelists any good except me. Sovietski -- yah! Nastikoff -- bah! I spit me of zem all. No novelists anywhere any good except me. P. G. Wodehouse and Tolstoi not bad. Not good, but not bad. No novelists any good except me.
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A lot of artists start out as failed poets, then move on to being failed short-story writers before they finally break through to the big time and become failed novelists.
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How can a novelist achieve atonement when, with her absolute power of deciding outcomes, she is also God?
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Morality in the novel is the trembling instability of the balance. When the novelist puts his thumb in the scale, to pull down the balance to his own predilection, that is immorality.
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I grew up as a reader as well as a movie-lover, so many of the novelists I admired - and so many of the great filmmakers I loved - were self-taught.
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I know to argue against our online lives seems like the argument of the grumpy, old Luddite novelist, but I really always try to make the argument from the perspective of personal pleasure.
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Canada has one great novelist (Robertson Davies), which means it has one for every twenty-five million citizens - the world's highest ratio.
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They can't yank a novelist like they can a pitcher. A novelist has to go the full nine, even if it kills him.
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The novelist must be his own most harsh critic and also his own most loving admirer and about both he must say nothing.
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As a novelist you have just unlimited budget, total creative control. You really get to have your cake - all the cake - and then you can have a second cake if you wanted to.
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Rebecca Goldstein is a rare find among contemporary novelists: she has intellectual muscle as well as a tender emotional reach.
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Outcasts may grow up to be novelists and filmmakers and computer tycoons, but they will never be the athletic ruling class.
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To a novelist, fluidity is the ultimate good omen; suddenly difficult problems are simply solved, intractable structural knots loosen themselves, and you come upon the key without even recognizing that this is what you hold.
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I sometimes think novelists write about sex in order to avoid boring themselves to death.
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Novelists want to flood, poets want to distill.
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Novelists should never allow themselves to weary of the study of real life.
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And that singular anomaly, the lady novelist--
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The novelist, quite rightly, fears the psychoanalyst as both an enemy and a usurper.
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Novels are fictions and therefore they tell lies, but through those lies every novelist attempts to tell the truth about the world.
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A novelist must preserve a childlike belief in the importance of things which common sense considers of no great consequence.
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As an historical novelist - there are few jobs more retrospective.
