Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Jessica Savitch

Being a novelty had its advantages.

Honore de Balzac

Novelty is both delightful and deceptive.

Eva Zeisel

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

Maria Semple

I must say, it was a lot easier writing novels than I thought it would be. I think it's because I'm a novelist at heart, and it took me a while to figure that out.

Ruth Glick

I didn't know anything about romance novels until a friend suggested that I try writing one. After I read a few, I realized that my favorite part of fiction had always been the relationship aspect.

Manuel Puig

It's my own personal unconscious that ultimately creates the novel's aesthetic facade.

Manuel Puig

I have written every one of my novels to convince somebody of something.

Madeleine M. Kunin

If being a woman is a factor politically, it's usually not because of a conscious bias, but because women are a novelty.

Jonathan Kellerman

I would never have been a novelist without working as a psychologist...it was a great education in human nature.

Joyce Carol Oates

Only when you have completed a novel, or a story, can you return to the beginning and revise or rewrite.

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.

Peter Carey

I have never begun a novel which wasn't going to stretch me further than I had ever stretched before.

Rachel Cusk

I'm a novelist, not a social scientist or a commentator.

John Banville

The novel is resilient, and so are novelists.

John Banville

Dostoevsky is such a bad writer it is hard to take him seriously as a novelist, though he is a wonderful philosopher.

Juliet Marillier

As a novelist, I'm endlessly fascinated by human behavior and interactions.

P. G. Wodehouse

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.

Ovid

Novelty in all things is charming.

Nelson DeMille

Lawrence Kelter is an exciting new novelist, who reminds me of an early Robert Ludlum.

Michael Crichton

Good novels are not written, they're rewritten!

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

Rand Paul

I read all of Ayn Rand's novels when I was 17.

Sidney Poitier

I don't very often read novels.

Nicolas Chamfort

Change, change,--we all covet change.

Nicolaus Copernicus

The scorn which I had reason to fear on account of the novelty and unconventionality of my opinion almost induced me to abandon completely the work which I had undertaken. . . . Astronomy is written for astronomers. To them my work too will seem, unless I am mistaken, to make some contribution.

Philip Larkin

If you tell a novelist, 'Life's not like that', he has to do something about it. The poet simply replies, 'No, but I am.'