Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Mitchell

I'm a novelist, that's how I make my livelihood, and I concentrate on the novels.

Beth Henley

But here's the thing: what you do as a screenwriter is you sell your copyright. As a novelist, as a poet, as a playwright, you maintain your copyright

Billy Bob Thornton

I'm more influenced by novelists than I am by filmmakers.

Dean Koontz

Not all popular novelists are good, but all good novelists are, sooner or later, popular.

Aleksandar Hemon

I resist when someone calls me a novelist: it implies some kind of inherent superiority of the novel. I'm not a novelist, I'm a writer.

A. S. Byatt

I am not an academic who happens to have written a novel. I am a novelist who happens to be quite good academically.

Kurt Vonnegut

I think I belong to America's last generation of novelists. Novelists will come one by one from now on, not in seeming families, and will perhaps write only one or two novels, and let it go at that.

Jane Smiley

A novelist is on the cusp between someone who knows everything and someone who knows nothing.

Jane Smiley

Novelists never have to footnote.

Georges Danton

Boldness, more boldness, and perpetual boldness!.

Georges Braque

We will never have repose. The present is perpetual.

Dumarsais Simeus

In all that I have done, I have always been successful. I'm a perpetual winner, and I will win these elections.

Chris Eigeman

I picture Generation X as young adults living in a state of perpetual adolescence.

Rick Springfield

I was - I've always been a bit of perpetual adolescent.