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A novelist is a doctor who sees only terminal cases.
— John Irving
I started my career as an actor, then morphed into a playwright who accidentally became a novelist with my first book 'Fall On Your Knees.'
— Ann-Marie MacDonald
A novelist is a person who lives in other people's skins.
— E.L. Doctorow
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
The novelist is more like a pregnant woman who delivers her own child unaided. A messy procedure, with lots of groaning.
— David Mitchell
Whatever fame a novelist my attain, it's always kind of an anonymous one. I can go anywhere, and no one knows who I am ...
— Jonathan Kellerman
Novelist: A person who has more than a dozen novels in the works and thinks it would be novel to finish one.
— Michael Kroft
Darling, in this family we don't call anyone a novelist who has not written more books than Jane Austen.
— Pansy Schneider-Horst
A novelist is on the cusp between someone who knows everything and someone who knows nothing.
— Jane Smiley
I am not an academic who happens to have written a novel. I am a novelist who happens to be quite good academically.
— A.S. Byatt
I want to be a popular novelist who's also serious, or a serious novelist who's also very accessible.
— Douglas Kennedy
The past was where he lived most confidently, and with the surest sense of knowing who he was - not only as a novelist.
— John Irving
I was always at heart a novelist and wanted to tell a bigger story, so I wanted to create people who told other kinds of truths than literal truths.
— Aminatta Forna
Charlie Huston, who showran the first season [of Powers], is a novelist, and likes to internalize fiction as a novelist does.
— Brian Michael Bendis
I say novelist, not writer. The novelist is one who, according to Flaubert, seeks to disappear behind his work.
— Milan Kundera
A novelist is a man who doesn't like his mother.
— Georges Simenon
In effect I am not a novelist, but rather a failed essayist who started to write novels because he didn't know how to write essays.
— Jose Saramago
I wish people would think of me as a musician who writes novels, instead of a novelist who writes music on the side.
— Anthony Burgess
The difference between a novelist and someone who tinkers around with writing is this: novelists finish their books.
— Nancy Etchemendy
If you don't trust a novelist, who are you going to trust?
— Carlos Ruiz Zafon
The suspense of a novel is not only in the reader, but in the novelist, who is intensely curious about what will happen to the hero.
— Mary McCarthy
I never met anybody in my life who says, I want to be a critic. People want to be a fireman, poet, novelist.
— Leslie Fiedler
He was after all, a novelist ... and a novelist was simply a fellow who got paid to tell lies. The bigger the lies, the better the pay.
— Stephen King
The novelist is the person who spends a lot of his or her day thinking about the human drama and emotional complexity.
— Thane Rosenbaum
A novelist is really nothing more than an historian of a people who have no history.
— Federico Gamboa
A novelist is someone who sits around the house all day in his underwear, trying not to smoke.
— Scott Spencer
It was probably Chekhov who said that the novelist is not someone who answers questions but someone who asks them.
— Haruki Murakami
A novelist who ranks with Proust , Kafka , Musil and his friend James Joyce as one of the enduring pillars of Modernism.
— Italo Svevo