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Novelist Quotes (page 5)

...speaking as a novelist myself, I know that members of our profession live in our imaginations as much or more as we inhabit what people call 'the real world'... Dan Simmons
My first editor used to say that eighty-five per cent of what goes on in a novelist's head is none of his business, a sentiment I've never believed should be restricted to just writers. Stephen King
[Jos] Saramago for the last 25 years stood his own with any novelist of the Western world [..] He was the equal of Philip Roth, Gunther Grass, Thomas Pynchon and Don DeLillo. His genius was remarkably versatile? he was at once a great comic and a writer of shocking earnestness and grim poignancy. It is hard to believe he will not survive. Harold Bloom
Arthur Schopenhauer quote: "The business of the novelist is not to relate great events,..."
The business of the novelist is not to relate great events, but to make small ones interesting. Arthur Schopenhauer
Virginia Woolf quote: "The real novelist, the perfectly simple human being, could go..."
The real novelist, the perfectly simple human being, could go on, indefinitely imaging. Virginia Woolf
The only real people are the people who never existed, and if a novelist is base enough to go to life for his personages he should at least pretend that they are creations, and not boast of them as copies. The justification of a character in a novel is not that other persons are what they are, but that the author is what he is. Otherwise the novel is not a work of art. Oscar Wilde
The statement that there is any such thing, and the statement that there is no such thing, are niether of them statements that science can make. And real scientists do not usually make them. It is usually the journalists and popular novelists who have picked up a few odds and ends of half-baked science from textbooks who go in for them. C. S. Lewis
Stephen Vizinczey quote: "You tell me your favorite novelists and I'll tell you whom you..."
You tell me your favorite novelists and I'll tell you whom you vote for, or whether you vote at all. Stephen Vizinczey
E. L. Doctorow quote: "A novelist is a person who lives in other people's skins."
A novelist is a person who lives in other people's skins. E. L. Doctorow
In America they have to know just what you are-- novelist, poet, playwright... Well, I've been all of them... I think poems and novels and stories spring from the same seed. It's not like, say, playing polo and knitting. Robert Penn Warren
The novelist does not long to see the lion eat grass. He realizes that one and the same God created the wolf and the lamb, then smiled, "seeing that his work was good". Andre Gide
I learned early on that war forms its own culture. The rush of battle is a potent and often lethal addiction, for war is a drug, one I ingested for many years. It is peddled by mythmakers- historians, war correspondents, filmmakers, novelists, and the state- all of whom endow it with qualities it often does possess: excitement, exoticism, power, chances to rise above our small stations in life, and a bizarre and fantastic universe that has a grotesque and dark beauty. Chris Hedges
The novelist with Christian concerns will find in modern life distortions which are repugnant to him, and his problem will be to make these appear as distortions to an audience which is used to seeing them as natural; and he may well be forced to take ever more violent means to get his vision across to this hostile audience. When you can assume that your audience holds the same beliefs you do, you can relax a little and use more normal ways of talking to it; when you have to assume that it... Flannery O'Connor
Vladimir Nabokov quote: "Lolita is famous, not I. I am an obscure, doubly obscure,..."
Lolita is famous, not I. I am an obscure, doubly obscure, novelist with an unpronounceable name. Vladimir Nabokov
At any rate, that’s how I started running. Thirty three—that’s how old I was then. Still young enough, though no longer a young man. The age that Jesus Christ died. The age that Scott Fitzgerald started to go downhill. That age may be a kind of crossroads in life. That was the age when I began my life as a runner, and it was my belated, but real, starting point as a novelist. Haruki Murakami

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