249 Novelist Quotes for You to Enjoy

Among the many problems which beset the novelist, not the least weighty is the choice of the moment at which to begin his novel. Vita Sackville-West

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A novelist is, like all mortals, more fully at home on the surface of the present than in the ooze of the past. Vladimir Nabokov

Home Past More Mortals Like Surface Than Fully Novelist Present

I'm a novelist, a critic, an essayist - I tend to see politics as a subset of cultures rather than the other way around. It's a human enterprise, a tool or a technology revealing our collective inner self. Walter Kirn

I become a first-time novelist and a senior citizen on the same day. Wayne Grady

Day Citizen Become Same Senior Novelist

I read all of Rider Haggard's books. For me he had the romance of Africa with a little bit of mysticism. I'm delighted to be looked on as his heir and be categorised as an adventure novelist because that's exactly what I am. Wilbur Smith

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The novelist, quite rightly, fears the psychoanalyst as both an enemy and a usurper. Will Self

Enemy Fears Rightly Both Quite Novelist

As a novelist, where do you go to tap into memories, and impressions, and sensations? It's usually, in my experience, your early life, before you started thinking of yourself as a writer, because somehow those experiences are unadulterated. William Boyd

When I was 30 or so - by that time I had become an assistant D.A. - I decided I would try to write a novel. To be clear: I did not decide to become a novelist. Honestly, it never crossed my mind that I could actually earn a living as a professional novelist. William Landay

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

Myself Accident Consider Out Purely Came Just Really Novelist

I think if I was interested in writing on my own, I would be a novelist - then you could write about yourself, and that would be it. You wouldn't need anyone else. Zal Batmanglij

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I'm a novelist - not an expert on coal mining. I'm not a politician with an agenda to push. I'm not a reporter presenting facts, and I'm not a sociologist documenting the last struggling remnants of blue-collar America. I'm simply an author who sets her books in coal country because it's where I come from, and it's what I know. Tawni O'Dell

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I'm a novelist, and I'm a woman, and I'm considered to be a serious author whether I like it or not. Tawni O'Dell

Woman Considered Like Author Whether Novelist Serious

Manners are of such great consequence to the novelist that any kind will do. Bad manners are better than no manners at all, and because we are losing our customary manners, we are probably overly conscious of them; this seems to be a condition that produces writers. Flannery O'Connor

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