Quotes by Novelists I know I'm a rare person, a trained scientist who writes fiction, because so few contemporary novelists engage with science. Barbara Kingsolver rare-person novelists writing Henry James claim that if you want to be a novelist you should be somebody on whom nothing is lost. Ben Lerner novelists want lost I was a novelist before I was a TV screenwriter. Actually, as a kid, I think I'd always wanted to be a writer, but never thought that I would be one. Ben Richards novelists kids thinking Horror writers can write about everything in the real world that a mainstream novelist can--plus the supernatural, which is the most fertile field for metaphor imaginable. Bentley Little novelists real writing A novelist has mad a fictional representation of life. I doing so, he has revealed to us more significance, it may be, than he could find in life itself. Bernard DeVoto mad novelists may But here's the thing: what you do as a screenwriter is you sell your copyright. As a novelist, as a poet, as a playwright, you maintain your copyright. Beth Henley copyright novelists poet When it [truth] emerges it often bears out the saying that 'truth is stranger than fiction.' A novelist has to appear plausible, and would hesitate to make use of such astounding contradictions as occur in history through some extraordinary accident or twist of psychology . Bill Vaughan twists psychology novelists I'm more influenced by novelists than I am by filmmakers. Billy Bob Thornton filmmaker novelists I'm really influenced by Southern novelists, not many movie people. More like John Faulkner, William Faulkner, Erskine Caldwell, Flannery O'Connor, John Steinbeck, and people like that. Billy Bob Thornton novelists southern people While the novelist is banging on his typewriter, the poet is watching a fly in the windowpane. Billy Collins novelists poet typewriters The terrorist is the one with the small bomb. Brendan Behan novelists war peace Charlie Huston, who showran the first season [of Powers], is a novelist, and likes to internalize fiction as a novelist does. Brian Michael Bendis novelists doe fiction I couldn't be a novelist for instance. It feels like a very lonely endeavor. I don't know that I could survive the solitude of that. Brit Marling novelists solitude lonely I’d like to be remembered as someone who used their ability as a novelist or as a dramatist to say the things he felt needed to be said about the society while being as entertaining as possible. Because if you don’t entertain, nobody’s listening. Budd Schulberg novelists used listening A whim, a passing mood, readily induces the novelist to move hearth and home elsewhere. He can always plead work as an excuse to get him out of the clutches of bothersome hosts. C. S. Forester novelists home moving Many thousands of people have had the experience of finding the first friend, and it is none the less a wonder; as great a wonder (pace the novelists) as first love, or even greater. C. S. Lewis first-love novelists people Unfortunately for novelists, real life is getting way too funny and far-fetched. Carl Hiaasen novelists real way All novels are about crime. You'd be hard pressed to find any novel that does not have an element of crime. I don't see myself as a crime novelist, but there are crimes in my books. That's the nature of storytelling, if you want to reflect the real world. Carl Hiaasen novelists real book The human heart is bigger than the world. Carlos Bulosan generosity novelists heart Human nature provides the lyrics, and we novelists just compose the music. Carlos Ruiz Zafon novelists human-nature writing «1234567891011»