Novelists Quotes
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I had, like any other young novelist, started out by believing the difficult thing was to get published and that, once you managed that, well, your financial problems were over. I discovered, like any other serious novelist, that actually they had only just begun.
Mordecai Richler -
The lucidity of the battle narratives, the vigor of the prose, the strong feeling for the men from generals to privates who did the fighting, are all controlled by a constant sense of how it happened and what it was all about. Foote has the novelist's feeling for character and situation, without losing the historian's scrupulous regard for recorded fact. The Civil War is likely to stand unequalled.
Walter Millis
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The novelist works neither to correct nor to condone, not at all to comfort, but to make what's told alive.
Eudora Welty -
America may have great poets and novelists, but she never will have more than one necromancer.
Rebecca Harding Davis -
Nobody asks you to do this. The world out there is not panting after another novelist. We choose it
Paul Auster -
Theoretically, we know that the world turns, but in fact we do not notice it, the earth on which we walk does not seem to move andwe live on in peace. This is how it is concerning Time in our lives. And to render its passing perceptible, novelists must... have their readers cross ten, twenty, thirty years in two minutes.
Marcel Proust -
Real novelists, those we admire, those we consider timeless in their language and character and scene, those who receive accolades for inventive language and form, have writing lives we imagine in specific ways.
Susan Straight -
The novel, for me, was an accident. I really don't consider myself a novelist.
Wole Soyinka
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When I began to read as an adult, my first big enthusiasm was Evelyn Waugh. I read almost exclusively novelists of a generation back. I did the Russians, then I started getting more up to date.
Hilary Mantel -
Novelists can ask - they can ask for anything - but their books are their answers in advance.
Joshua Cohen -
You tell me your favorite novelists and I'll tell you whom you vote for, or whether you vote at all.
Stephen Vizinczey -
I don't really consider myself a novelist, it just came out purely by accident.
Wole Soyinka -
Like most novelists, I like to do exactly the opposite of what I'm told. It's in my nature as a novelist. Novelists can't trust anything they haven't seen with their own eyes or touched with their own hands.
Haruki Murakami -
I knew Id always be a second-rate academic, and I thought, Well, Id rather be a second-rate novelist or even a third-rate one.
Sarah Waters
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Possibly the Creator did not make the world chiefly for the purpose of providing studies for gifted novelists; but if He had done so, we can scarcely imagine that He could have offered anything much better in the way of material.
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward -
For novelists or musicians, if they really want to create something, they need to go downstairs and find a passage to get into the second basement. What I want to do is go down there, but still stay sane.
Haruki Murakami -
I only became a novelist because I thought I had missed my chance to become a historian.
Hilary Mantel -
A filmmaker has almost the same freedom as a novelist has when he buys himself some paper.
Stanley Kubrick -
It is at least worth arguing that there is a modicum of the creative novelist in all of us, and that this absorption with how men get out of difficulties, single-handedly and alone if possible, is the stuff of which we weave the warp and woof of our own better dramatic imaginings.
Humphrey Bogart