Quotes About Author

I'm a novelist, and I'm a woman, and I'm considered to be a serious author whether I like it or not.

I'm a competent novelist. I'm getting better. But I'm a really good short story writer.

I am a novelist through and through.

As a novelist, you write about social mores, but not everything can be explained.

Uzodinma Iweala is a fine and confident novelist.

I'm not a writer; I'm not a novelist.

Among books, one of my early favorites was Gurunath Naik, a Marathi novelist. His mysteries were very popular in the 70s.

Crime novelists do really well with Los Angeles.

I had wanted to write English crime novels based on the American hard-boiled style, and for the first two novels about Brixton, the critics didn't actually know I was Irish.

I've never been good with deadlines. My early novels, I wrote by myself. No one knew I was writing a novel; I didn't have a contract.

I'm very interested in writing - it just takes so much discipline, whether it's short stories or novels.

I didn't want to write a biographie romancee especially since I already write novels, nor did I want to challenge the rules of the biography game, arbitrary as those rules might be.

I've always been ambidextrous, writing short stories and novels, and I pretty much have been writing a novel and a handful of short stories every year since '91.

All of my novels are democracies.

I write novels about women, except for one: 'Rococo', about a man, a New Jersey decorator. But even that book had a woman on the cover.

My first two novels were very black comedies.

All novels must be autobiographical because I am the only material that I know. All of the characters are me. But at the same time, a novel is never autobiographical even if it describes the life of the author. Literary writing is a completely different medium.

Iris Murdoch did influence my early novels very much, and influence is never entirely good.

I don't think I'm interested in writing women's novels anymore.

I almost always use first person voice in my novels. It has its limitations, but it gives a sense of immediacy that's hard to create with an anonymous, all-seeing narrator.

I like the idea of making big budget films with a heart. I like graphic novels more than comic books.

I don't write romance novels.

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.

I think of my novels as entertainments.