Quotes by Novelists I hated being a novelist when I was 20 - I had nothing to write about. A. S. Byatt hated novelists writing 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 academic novelists happens Drawing Dead is a brilliant noir from one of Australia's most exciting new novelists. Adrian McKinty drawing novelists australia It is not the office of a novelist to show us how to behave ourselves; it is not the business of fiction to teach us anything. Agnes Repplier novelists office fiction Great novelists are philosopher novelists - that is, the contrary of thesis-writers. Albert Camus philosopher novelists writing 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 novelists cat writing 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 call-me novelists kind I realized that my identity as a novelist was private. Only I knew how much of a novelist I was! Alexander Chee i-realized novelists identity 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 casting novelists actors I'm at the point where going forward is easier than going back. Alice Hoffman moving-on novelists moving-forward I never see a novel as a film while I'm writing it. Mostly because novels and films are so different, and I'm such an internal novelist Alice Hoffman novelists different writing I'm not a novelist, I'm a storyteller. There is no art in what I do, no mystique. Alistair Maclean storyteller novelists art RICE-WATER, n. A mystic beverage secretly used by our most popular novelists and poets to regulate the imagination and narcotize the conscience. Ambrose Bierce novelists imagination water TZETZE (or TSETSE) FLY, n. An African insect ("Glossina morsitans") whose bite is commonly regarded as nature's most efficacious remedy for insomnia, though some patients prefer that of the American novelist ("Mendax interminabilis"). Ambrose Bierce novelists nature insomnia If you're a novelist, you have sort of themes that run throughout novels. You start a novel and you finish a novel. With record-making in the singer-songwriter world or whatever it is that I do, it's a little different because there is no specific arc that is necessarily, like it's not a concept record. Amos Lee novelists different running History is the history of human behavior, and human behavior is the raw material of fiction. Most people recognize that novelists do research to get the facts right - how a glove factory works, for example, or how courtesans in imperial Japan dressed. Amy Waldman japan novelists people As a novelist, you deepen your characters as you go, adding layers. As a reporter, you try to peel layers away: observing subjects enough to get beneath the surface, re-questioning a source to find the facts. But these processes aren't so different. Amy Waldman novelists trying character The bad novelist constructs his characters; he directs them and makes them speak. The true novelist listens to them and watches them act; he hears their voices even before he knows them. Andre Gide novelists voice character The novelist does not long to see the Andre Gide novelists doe long The novelist must be his own most harsh critic and also his own most loving admirer and about both he must say nothing. Angus Wilson admirer novelists writing 1234567891011»