Quotes About Authorship

It wasn't until I was 35 or 36, when I wrote 'Danny and the Deep Blue Sea,' that I began to get some notoriety, though I only made $5,000.

Every journalist has a novel in him, which is an excellent place for it.

I completed my first novel when I was 19 years old.

You have a billion people who know 'Tribbles' and only half a million who know my novel 'The Man Who Folded Himself,' which is one of my better-known books.

A good novel is a good novel, pointe finale. And I think what I'm writing is exactly that.

If I had to write a novel, I'd start crying after three lines.

I took two years away from making films to write a novel.

I've never abandoned the novel.

I wrote the worst novel ever.

When I feel like being a director, I write a novel.

It's hard for me to think of writing a novel, because it takes so long.

When I was 30 or so - by that time I had become an assistant D.A. - I decided I would try to write a novel. To be clear: I did not decide to become a novelist. Honestly, it never crossed my mind that I could actually earn a living as a professional novelist.

I've always thought a novelist only has one character, and that is himself or herself. In my case, me.

I wanted to be a novelist for so long.

I'm not a biographer, I'm a novelist.

As a novelist, you have to be free. Books can't be an act of filial duty.

It's funny, because I don't think of myself as a novelist. I think of myself as a writer.

I'd be far too self-conscious and insecure if I suspected my editor might be a better novelist than I.

A novel I read when I was about 17 or 18 - 'The World According to Garp,' by John Irving - really made me want to become a writer. The character of Garp is a novelist, and at the time, the whole lifestyle of being a writer was hugely appealing to me.

I've always wanted to be a novelist, so I just try to write really great narrative.

I'm always accused of being a crime novelist, but I'm not really.

I wrote a novel, so now they can call me a novelist. I tell stories; that's it.

I couldn't have been the novelist I was without being the journalist I was.

My whole life, I've wanted to be a novelist.