Famous Quotes & Sayings

Salman Rushdie

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

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.

Howard Gordon

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

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.

H. L. Mencken

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

Milan Kundera

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Frank Norris

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

Jonathan Kellerman

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

Wole Soyinka

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