Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michel Faber

All my novels are about people who strive to heal and evolve.

Philipp Meyer

When novels deal in abstractions, they generally go off the rails.

Philip Levine

My temperament is not geared to that of a novelist.

Peter Morgan

To what degree are historians chroniclers of the truth and to what degree are they just novelists, frankly?

Peter Ackroyd

Freud was just a novelist.

Pliny the Elder

Human nature craves novelty.

Pliny the Elder

Human nature is fond of novelty.

Rita Mae Brown

Not until my middle thirties did I consider myself a novelist.

Sarah Waters

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.

Sara Paretsky

Around the time I turned 30, I wanted to publish a novel

Salman Rushdie

I'm a novelist. Fortunately I don't have to rule the world.

William Golding

However you disguise novels, they are always biographies.

Sophie Kinsella

The great thing about being a novelist is that you organize your own day.

Thomas Hardy

The business of the poet and the novelist is to show the sorriness underlying the grandest things and the grandeur underlying the sorriest things.

Jeff Bezos

I'm skeptical that the novel will be 're-invented.'

George Sand

Travelling is like a novel: it's what happens that counts.

Eva Zeisel

Novelty is a concept of commerce, not an aesthetic concept.

Howard Gordon

In a novel, the relationship between writer and reader is such a pure one.

Howard Gordon

I guess I've always been an aspiring novelist. I went to Princeton and wrote a novel for my thesis.

Hortense Calisher

The novel is rescued life.

Gore Vidal

Universities are filled with poets and novelists conducting demure and careful lives in imitation of Eliot and Forster and those others who (through what seems to be have been discretion) made it.

Gore Vidal

Southerners make good novelists: they have so many stories because they have so much family.

Friedrich Nietzsche

As soon as we are shown the existence of something old in a new thing, we are pacified.

George Bernard Shaw

It is clear that a novel cannot be too bad to be worth publishing. . . . It certainly is possible for a novel to be too good to be worth publishing.

George Bernard Shaw

It is the sexless novel that should be distinguished: the sex novel is now normal.

Michael A. Stackpole

Authors can easily produce ebook versions of novels and shorter work which publishers don't own.

Ernst Mayr

The major novelty of my theory was its claim that the most rapid evolutionary change does not occur in widespread, populous species, as claimed by Most geneticists, but in small founder populations.

Mohsin Hamid

Only in novels can we take another human being into our head and create something jointly.

Graphic novels are such a visually creative world - it's really interesting what they can do in one sketch. Now I'm hooked.

J. K. Rowling

In a novel you have to resist the urge to tell everything.

H. L. Mencken

Henry James would have been vastly improved as a novelist by a few whiffs of the Chicago stockyard.

Honore de Balzac

Novelty is both delightful and deceptive.

Milan Kundera

For a novelist, a given historic situation is an anthropologic laboratory in which he explores his basic question: What is human existence?