Quotes About Author

And it is a folly to try to craft a novel for the screen, to write a novel with a screen contract in mind.

So, I outlined a horror novel and started writing.

The Butcher Boy is a very great novel indeed and a very important Irish novel. The ambiguity of that is, he's writing a book about an appalling situation and he does it in a hilarious way.

I'm working on a nonfiction book on Nepal and a novel about diasporas.

A novel makes it possible to understand not just events, but the people who control the events; not only their choices, but also their motives.

'Life of Pi' was actually a very simple novel to write.

I wrote my first novel and my second novel in Chicago. It was the place where I became a writer. It's my favorite city.

I use the setting of a small rural Norwegian community - the kind of place that I know so intimately. I could never write a novel set in a big city, because, frankly, I don't know what it would be like.

Nothing beats novel writing because it's complete expression of you. You just control everything. Not even a movie director has that level of control.

Newt Gingrich wrote a novel, and he's a short story. Bill Clinton wrote a biography, and he's a novel.

I didn't intend to be a novelist. I didn't intend to be anything. I thought I'd be a journalist.

Irish novelist John Banville has a creepy, introverted imagination.

It's good training for a novelist to try to discern the truth about a place after only a few glimpses of it.

I had thought of writing, actually, and that later on I'd be a novelist.

I wasn't taking myself seriously as a novelist, and then it became my day job.

The novelist, quite rightly, fears the psychoanalyst as both an enemy and a usurper.

I'm a novelist. I'm not a crusader, and I'm not an editorial writer. And I'm not writing fiction to convince anybody of anything.

I'm a novelist, not a social scientist or a commentator.

I'm a big, bombastic novelist and thrill-ride guy. I'm never going to win the National Book Award.

He was interviewed in the early '60s by a young novelist, Pati Hill.

I always wanted to be a writer, and I did want to be a novelist. In college I took a couple of classes that taught me I would never be a novelist. I discovered I had no imagination. My short stories were always thinly veiled memoir.

I'm a middle-class, middle-brow novelist. And that's it. It amuses me.

As an historical novelist - there are few jobs more retrospective. I dumped science at an early age.

As a novelist, I like the contained drama and complexity of the courtroom, though I don't watch those shows on TV. I prefer the hospital shows because I wanted to be a doctor.