Quotes About Novelist

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.

The novelist wants to know how things will turn out; the historian already knows how things turned out, but wants to know why they turned out the way they did.

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 read all of Rider Haggard's books. For me he had the romance of Africa with a little bit of mysticism. I'm delighted to be looked on as his heir and be categorised as an adventure novelist because that's exactly what I am.

I become a first-time novelist and a senior citizen on the same day.

I never wanted to be a Cold War novelist.

I wanted to write about the Korean War, but I had no entry into it that made the kind of sense it needs to make for a novelist.

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

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.

Noir is dead for me because historically, I think it's a simple view. I've taken it as far as it can go. I think I've expanded on it a great deal, taken it further than any other American novelist.

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

I'm a novelist, so I can't write about ideas unless they're attached to people.

I think that's the most important job of a novelist - to bring authority to their writing.

I wanted to be a novelist for so long.

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.

The fact is that in this day and age I don't think any novelist can assume that a book will get attention.

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

The idea of being a novelist is really romantic, but it's kind of the same as being president of the United States - it's not gonna happen.

Freud was just a novelist.

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