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Trying to outrun the novelist's most insidious enemy, which is doubt. — Stephen King

I'm a novelist, so I can't write about ideas unless they're attached to people. — Julian Barnes

They'll say, 'He never recovered from that breakdown and this was the result. It had to be the breakdown
not even he was that dreadful a novelist. — Philip Roth

Do you think that, if I did, I would lead you to the answer inch by inch, like a dramatist or a novelist? — Alexandre Dumas

It is not the novelist's job to preach; it is his duty to show. — Anthony Burgess

Miss Austen had shown the infinite possibilities of ordinary and present things for the novelist. — George Saintsbury

I resist when someone calls me a novelist: it implies some kind of inherent superiority of the novel. I'm not a novelist, I'm a writer. — Aleksandar Hemon

Whether he be an original or a plagiarist, man is the novelist of himself. — Jose Ortega Y Gasset

I am a huge fan of Alan Furst. Furst is the best in the business
the most talented espionage novelist of our generation. — Vince Flynn

The best novelist of my generation is an Italian living in Paris, still working and improving - Italo Calvino. — Gore Vidal

A novelist's characters must be with him as he lies down to sleep, and as he wakes from his dreams. He must learn to hate them and to love them. — Anthony Trollope

Now that I was a novelist, I could not face the ignominy of failing to produce novels. — Thomas Keneally

A novelist must preserve a childlike belief in the importance of things which common sense considers of no great consequence. — W. Somerset Maugham

Ruth was a novelist, and novelists, Oliver asserted, should have cats and books. — Ruth Ozeki

Really, the novelist has the best casting since he doesn't have to cope with the actors and all the rest.
-Alfred Hitchcock — Alfred Hitchcock

I would love to see young writers come out of college and know there is a possibility to be a novelist. — Pat Conroy

If you hear voices, you're a lunatic. If you write down what they say, you're an author. — Dani Harper

Every author these days is an award-winning novelist. Why? Because they set up an award contest and they dub themselves the winner. — Karen E. Quinones Miller

I'm a novelist. I think fiction is important or I wouldn't be doing it, but most of it's bad. — Dale Peck

A novelist who ranks with Proust , Kafka , Musil and his friend James Joyce as one of the enduring pillars of Modernism. — Italo Svevo

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

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

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

If you write a screenplay that gets circulated, you have a bigger readership than any literary novelist. And it's an educated audience as well. — William Monahan

It was probably Chekhov who said that the novelist is not someone who answers questions but someone who asks them. — Haruki Murakami

I'm proud to be a crime novelist. What I've chosen is the best way to convey the questions I'm trying to raise. — George Pelecanos

I'm a novelist at heart. My sole intention is to write the best novel possible. I don't think about the film potential at all. — Nicholas Sparks

I was going to be the best failed novelist in Paris. That was certainly not the worst thing in the world that one could be. — Alan Furst

Perhaps, after all, the greatest psychologist is not the metaphysician but the novelist. — Walter Besant

Lawrence Kelter is an exciting new novelist, who reminds me of an early Robert Ludlum. — Nelson DeMille

I think of a designer as a processor of information - like a scriptwriter or a novelist. — Freeman Thomas

I couldn't have been the novelist I was without being the journalist I was. — Pete Hamill

Freud was just a novelist. — Peter Ackroyd

The reader may not see [these meanings], but they have their effect on him nonetheless. This is the way the modern novelist sinks, or hides his theme — Flannery O'Connor

Moonrise is a fabulous novel and my damn wife wrote it and that's me up there near Highlands shouting it out to the hills. — Pat Conroy

If you want to be a psychological novelist and write about human beings, the best thing you can do is keep a pair of cats. — Aldous Huxley

A novelist who has to defend his creation by telling a reader *But that's what really happened*, is a novelist who has failed. — Samuel G. Freedman

For years, I felt I was a novelist, but now I know I can write short fiction. — Jill McCorkle

I was one of those kids who never wanted to be anything but a novelist. And I don't know a lot of people who truly live the life that they dreamed of. — Scott Turow

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

I guess it's true: it's difficult for men to understand women. — Santonu Kumar Dhar

A friend worth knowing tolerates your flaws while a friend worth keeping loves you in spite of them. — K.E. Garvey

Yeah, I have the detail-obsessed, controlling personality of a novelist, but I somehow ended up writing plays. — Annie Baker

I never had any ambitions to be a novelist. — Haruki Murakami