Quotes by Novelists I grew up as a reader as well as a movie-lover, so many of the novelists I admired - and so many of the great filmmakers I loved - were self-taught. Curtis Hanson taught novelists self Personally, I have never wished I were a male novelist. Curtis Sittenfeld males novelists It is when we are most lost that we sometimes find our truest friends. Cynthia Rylant novelists inspiring friendship The detective story itself is in a dilemma. It is a vein which is in danger of being worked out, the demand is constant, the powers of supply variable, and the reader, with each one he absorbs, grows a little more sophisticated and harder to please, while the novelist, after each one he writes, becomes a little more exhausted. Cyril Connolly novelists stories writing The only true aristocracy is that of consciousness. D. H. Lawrence aristocracy novelists poetry I am a man and alive. For this reason I am a novelist. And, being a novelist, I consider myself superior to the saint, te scientist, the philosopher, and the poet, who are all great masters of different bits of man alive, but never get the whole hog....Only in the novel are all things given full play. D. H. Lawrence novelists play men Morality in the novel is the trembling instability of the balance. When the novelist puts his thumb in the scale, to pull down the balance to his own predilection, that is immorality. D. H. Lawrence thumbs novelists balance The novel is a perfect medium for revealing to us the changing rainbow of our living relationships. The novel can help us to live,as nothing else can: no didactic Scripture, anyhow. If the novelist keeps his thumb out of the pan. D. H. Lawrence rainbow novelists perfect I'm a novelist. I think fiction is important or I wouldn't be doing it, but most of it's bad. Dale Peck novelists important thinking I always think the novelist should go to the culture's dark places and poke around. Pose a lot of hard questions. Dana Spiotta novelists dark thinking Shyness is a curious thing, because, like quicksand, it can strike people at any time, and also, like quicksand, it usually makes its victims look down. Daniel Handler novelists musician people I have an English literature degree. I wanted to be the next great American novelist from a very early age, but I put it aside for a while, because I got very realistic at one point. Daniel Suarez degrees novelists age Don't be a novelist --- be a statistician. Much more scope for the imagination. Darrell Huff novelists scope imagination Of all the hot liquors, I regard buttered rum as the worst. I believe that the drinking of it should be permitted only in the "Northwest Passage" and, even there, only by highly imaginative and overenthusiastic novelists. David A. Embury novelists drinking believe You might learn as much about how to write by reading Shakespeare, Tolstoy, Wallace Stevens, Raymond Chandler, Saul Bellow, Paul Muldoon or a hundred other good novelists or poets than by seeing another round of John Ford revivals. David Denby novelists reading writing Maybe with "Californication" the character was partly based on Rick Moody. I read him and Jay McInerney, the templates for this bad boy novelist. David Duchovny novelists character boys A novelist has to know enough about a subject to fool the passenger next to him on an airplane. David Foster Wallace airplane novelists writing I wrote four novels, but then I realized that the world didn't need me to be a novelist, but the world could use me as a nonfiction writer. David Quammen novelists use needs I'm a novelist, that's how I make my livelihood, and I concentrate on the novels. David Mitchell livelihood novelists novel A novelist needs to know his own strong points and weak points. David Mitchell novelists strong needs «1234567891011»