Novelist Quotes

I'm not someone who from a young age imagined myself being a writer or had dreams of being a novelist or anything like that, but I was always very driven by ideas and by values, and that is the reason I got into journalism. Bari Weiss
Dreams Myself Age Values Young Someone Writer Driven Had Journalism Like Ideas Always Got Very Young Age Being Anything Reason Who Novelist Imagined
Working on an adaptation is not as satisfying, because it's not your original work: you're interpreting. With 'L.A. Confidential,' I loved the book. In that case, I felt I was guardian of the work, staying as true to the novel as I could. I've since met the novelist, and he loves the movie and the script. Brian Helgeland
Work You Book Guardian Met Staying Case Could He True Since Because Felt Confidential Movie Loved Script Loves Working Your Original Novel Novelist Satisfying Interpreting Adaptation
I wanted nothing less than to be a fiction writer when I was a kid. If you had told me I would be an artist or novelist when I grew up, I would have laughed in your face. Caleb Carr
Me You Face Nothing Kid Laughed Would Would-Be Writer Had Up Than Artist Fiction Wanted Fiction Writer Grew Your Less Novelist
Well I'm not a novelist. I've only written one book and that is a memoir. Carly Fiorina
Book One Book Memoir Only Written Well Novelist
I wanted to write about the Korean War, but I had no entry into it that made the kind of sense it needs to make for a novelist. Chang-Rae Lee
War Needs Made Sense Kind About Write Entry Had Make Korean Korean War Wanted Novelist
I became interested, through reading the works of some novelist, in Egyptology and made a study of the pyramids. It was just a hobby, but I had a desire to know all I could about everything I could. Charles M. Schwab
Made Reading Everything Some About Could Through Had Study Pyramids Know Became Just Hobby Interested Works Novelist Desire
I am not a political thinker. I'm not even much of a thinker. I'm a hack novelist. Christopher Buckley
Political Hack Am Much Even Novelist Thinker
I want Tom Clancy, the Maryland novelist, to write the story of the rest of my life. Christopher Buckley
Life Rest My Life Write Maryland Want Story Novelist Tom
I have that special sort of novelist body of knowledge which is extraordinarily wide and very, very shallow. So I can usually answer the questions on 'Jeopardy,' but never the bonus question. Christopher Moore
Knowledge Bonus Extraordinarily Shallow Never Sort Answer Question Questions Very Which Body Special Novelist Jeopardy Wide
I actually did work and produced two short dissertations, one on Faulkner and one on the film criticism of the stream-of-consciousness novelist Dorothy Richardson. Claire Messud
Work Criticism Faulkner Did Short Dorothy Produced Novelist Film Film Criticism Actually Two
I'm a novelist who read a lot as a kid. When you grow up on books and then grow up to write books, famous authors are a lot more meaningful to you than TV and movie stars. Claire Scovell LaZebnik
You Stars Books Kid TV More Write Read Lot Up Than Authors Famous Movie Movie Stars Meaningful Then Who Novelist Grow Grow Up
Writing tends to be very deliberate. A novelist could probably run a military campaign with some success. They could certainly run a country. Colm Toibin
Success Writing Country Military Run Some Deliberate Could Tends Campaign Very Certainly Novelist
The contemporary American novelist benefits in a way from being ignored. It makes you angrier and makes you want to go into all of those places where you shouldn't. Colum McCann
You Benefits Being Ignored Way Those Contemporary Makes Go American Being Where Want Places Ignored Novelist
Traditional autobiography has generally had a poor press. The novelist Daphne du Maurier condemned all examples of this literary form as self-indulgent. Others have quipped that autobiography reveals nothing bad about its writer except his memory. Craig Venter
Memory Nothing Others Press Bad About Examples Except Writer Generally Had Self-Indulgent Reveals Condemned Traditional His Autobiography Form Literary Poor Novelist
Personally, I have never wished I were a male novelist. Curtis Sittenfeld
Never Wished Were Male Personally Novelist
The novelist's intuition for the sacred differs from the translator's interrogation of the sacred. Cynthia Ozick
Intuition Sacred Translator Novelist Differs Interrogation
And I didn't grow up wanting to be a director. I grew up wanting to be a writer, so for me, that was always the goal - to be a novelist, not a screenwriter. And I think, again, if I didn't have the novels, maybe I'd be much more frustrated by not having directed yet. David Benioff
Me Director Think Directed Having More Writer Always Goal Up Maybe Grew Wanting Screenwriter Again Frustrated Much Novelist Grow Grow Up Novels
That's the novelist's job: to peel back the layers and look underneath. David Bergen
Job Peel Back Layers Look Underneath Novelist
With the marketing pressures driving the book world today, it's much easier to get the author of a memoir on a television show than a serious novelist. David Halberstam
Today Book World Marketing Easier Television Pressures Television Show Memoir Driving Than Author Get Much Show Novelist Serious
The world has changed, the CIA is having to change, and again, the challenge for someone like me as a spy novelist is to write realistically about where they're actually going. David Ignatius
Me Change CIA World Challenge Changed About Someone Having Write Like Spy Going Where Again Realistically Novelist Actually
A novelist needs to know his own strong points and weak points. David Mitchell
Needs Strong Own Weak Points Know His Novelist
As a novelist, I'm incredibly lucky to make a living, but that doesn't mean that I don't lie awake at four o'clock in the morning, worrying. David Nicholls
Morning Lie Living Incredibly Worrying Make Mean Awake Lucky Novelist Four
I'm a white, middle-class male who had a happy childhood in Ohio. The world does not need me to be a novelist. David Quammen
Me Happy World White Had Does Male Childhood Ohio Happy Childhood Who Novelist Need
A good TV writer needs all the same tricks a good novelist has. Dean Bakopoulos
Good Needs TV Tricks Writer Same Novelist
In 1989, I retired from Bell Laboratories to become a full-time writer. Not that I didn't enjoy my engineering career, but rather I liked being a novelist just a bit better. Dennis L. McKiernan
Better Become Engineering Enjoy Bit Rather Writer Retired Liked Just Being Full-Time Novelist Bell Career
I am a professional comedian, a published novelist, and a general wit for hire. Dominic Holland
General Wit Comedian Am Hire Professional Novelist Published
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