Novelist Quotes

It is possible to be a great novelist - that is, to render a veracious account of your times - and a...

A novelist's characters must be with him as he lies down to sleep, and as he wakes from his dreams. ...

The novelist is more like a pregnant woman who delivers her own child unaided. A messy procedure, wi...

Persons curious in chronology may, if they like, work out from what they already know of the Wimsey ...

Nothing travels faster than the speed of light, with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys...

The novel should tell the truth, as I see the truth, or as the novelist persuades me to see it. And ...

So much of a novelist’s writing … takes place in the unconscious: in those depths the last word is w...

No matter how much enthusiasm and effort you put into writing, if you totally lack literary talent y...

...Cody is furiously explaining to his little son Tim 'Never let the right hand know what your left ...

This was what I came to found. The conquest of loneliness was the missing link that was one day goin...

If your not annoying somebody, you're not alive.

How astonishingly intimate the business of fiction is, more intimate than anything that issues from ...

The world is a better place when you smile.

A novelist is essentially a person who covers distance through his patience, slowly, like an ant. A ...

There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book.Books are well written, or badly written. That ...

I think that at the bottom of all art lies the impulse to preserve.

I'm not asking you to come reverently or unquestioningly; I'm not asking you to be politically corre...

The real novelist, the perfectly simple human being, could go on, indefinitely imaging.

I gain nothing but pleasure from writing fiction; short stories are foreplay, novellas are heavy pet...