Quotes About Novelist

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

I hadn't ever felt any particular calling to be a novelist, and I clearly remember telling a friend of mine about six months before I started work on 'Elsewhere' that I would never write a novel.

I was one of those kids who never wanted to be anything but a novelist. And I don't know a lot of people who truly live the life that they dreamed of.

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.

I don't mind when people are telling me about their 1971 Firebird, but it's the same thing as people telling me about their car or something. It's fine if you have an interest. By talking with me, though, you could be interviewing a novelist about guitars. It's the same thing, except I don't write that well either.

I'm a novelist first, and I wrote a bunch of books, and everything I write, I just find people are more interesting when there's an element of humor to it.

I don't know if a novelist ever fully detaches him- or herself from what they wrote and the way they wrote it. I can watch 'Presumed Innocent' again and again, and I will always be bothered by the same things that will never bother anybody else.

I'm a successful novelist, and I've been a lucky one, so I don't want to cry the poor mouth. Writing has never been easy.

I don't want to marry anybody, but I certainly wouldn't want to marry a bad novelist.

Like so many others, I came to romance during the golden age of it - Judith McNaught, Julie Garwood, Johanna Lindsey and Jude Deveraux were at the height of their historical domination. Without those women, I wouldn't be a romance novelist.

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

As a young, ambitious novelist, writing for kids never crossed my mind.

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

I saw myself as a writer, a novelist, even though I was living the life of a mother and housewife. Writing was - and is - what I do.

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

With his compulsively slamming lyrics and king-of-the-world delivery, DMX intuitively echoes the existentialism of the projects of the novelist Donald Goines.

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

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

Why does any novelist keep writing long after they've made money? Because they've failed to write the perfect novel.

I am a novelist through and through.

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