Famous Quotes & Sayings

Marcel Proust

Proust was the greatest novelist of the twentieth century, just as Tolstoy was in the nineteenth.

Jose Saramago

I am a better novelist than a poet, playwright, or essayist.

Heinrich Heine

Newness hath an evanescent beauty.

Hilary Mantel

I only became a novelist because I thought I had missed my chance to become a historian.

Khaled Hosseini

For a novelist, it's kind of an onerous burden to represent an entire culture.

Khaled Hosseini

I also felt The Kite Runner was a story that would lend itself well to a visual retelling in a graphic novel.

Khaled Hosseini

The novel [The Kite Runner] came about as an expansion of that original, unpublished short story.

Mason Cooley

The novelty we want is always close to the familiar.

Sidney Poitier

I don't very often read novels.

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.

Juliet Marillier

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

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.

Jessica Savitch

Being a novelty had its advantages.

Simon Mawer

Sometimes I think that novelists suffer from P.C.S.: Perpetual Childhood Syndrome.

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!

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.

Frank Norris

The function of the novelist... is to comment upon life as he sees it.

Francois Rabelais

It is the custom on Africa to always produce new and monstrous things. [Fr., Afrique est coustumiere toujours choses produire nouvelles et monstrueuses.]

George McGovern

I never even had the time to read novels.

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.

Terry Pratchett

It was like being in a Jane Austen novel, but one with far less clothing.

Wole Soyinka

I don't really consider myself a novelist, it just came out purely by accident.

Wendell Berry

There is change by necessity or adaptation, and there is contrived change or novelty.