249 Novelist Quotes for You to Enjoy

The novelist is the vestigial bone on the body cinema. We're like the little toe that can be cut off. Don Winslow

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Research is the historical novelist's map, constraint, and purest energy. Donald McCaig

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In order for a long piece of work to engage a novelist over an extended period of time, it has to deal with questions that you find very important, that you're trying to work out. Donna Tartt

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The job of the novelist is to invent: to embroider, to color, to embellish, to make things up. Donna Tartt

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I want to be a popular novelist who's also serious, or a serious novelist who's also very accessible. Douglas Kennedy

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I like to think of myself as an unmediated novelist - or perhaps a national novelist. E. L. Doctorow

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There ought to be more grants that go to people in their late twenties and early thirties. That's a crucial age, although it's very hard to judge who is worth supporting and who is not. Looking back on my own life, I see that was the period when I was closest to giving up as a novelist and when I most needed some encouragement. Edmund White

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A straight writer can write a gay novel and not worry about it, and a gay novelist can write about straight people. Edmund White

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Nobody in France would ever say 'He's a Jewish novelist' or 'She's a black novelist,' even though people do write about those subjects. It would look absurd to a French person to go into a bookstore and see a 'Gay Studies' section. Edmund White

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As a novelist, you write about social mores, but not everything can be explained. Elif Batuman

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There are two different ways of writing a novel. The first I call the traditional father way, when the novelist slightly situates himself or herself above the text and knows what each and every character is going to do. It's a bit like engineering. I've never felt close to that tradition. I like the second way, which relies a bit more on intuition. Elif Safak

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I know that sometimes it happens that a novelist is embarrassed about their early works. For me, it's the opposite: I believe 'Durable Goods' is the best thing I've written. Elizabeth Berg

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It is the job of the novelist to touch the reader. Elizabeth George

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As a novelist, I like the contained drama and complexity of the courtroom, though I don't watch those shows on TV. I prefer the hospital shows because I wanted to be a doctor. Elizabeth Strout

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In 2013, when it turned out that the plot of LaBeouf's short film 'HowardCantour.com' (2012) had been purloined from graphic novelist Daniel Clowes's 2007 comic 'Justin M. Damiano', the actor-director responded with a series of tweet apologies that also appeared to be shoplifted. Elvis Mitchell

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Well, to be honest I think I'm a better short story writer than a novelist. Novels I find very hard, hours and hours, weeks and weeks, of conscious thought - whereas short stories slip out painlessly in a few days. Eric Brown

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You perhaps know me as a novelist. Literature is one of the arts - in fact, the noblest of the arts. That is not my opinion; it was first expressed by the ancients. As art, literature has many similarities with the other art forms. F. Sionil Jose

For most of us, our protective lies or omissions are so insignificant that being found out would be only mildly embarrassing. But for some of us, our secret may threaten to destroy everything. And that is food and drink to a novelist. Fiona Barton

Without a doubt, I was born to want to make cinema, but the kind of cinema I want to make is not like commercial movies, which I enjoy myself, but I wanted to be the kind of filmmaker who wrote original work, sort of like a novelist would who deals with who we are and our times or our relationships. Francis Ford Coppola

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The common wisdom is that only about 1 percent of a novelist's research ends up in his or her book. In my experience, it's even less - closer to a tenth of a percent. Gayle Lynds

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