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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
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 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
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
-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
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
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