Quotes About Novelist

I know that it's axiomatic in the film industry that you're not supposed to let the novelist develop their own story. Well, first of all, that's kind of up to the novelist - because they don't have to sell it. But also, I don't believe it. It's about trust.

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

I'm not an especially male novelist, but I think men are better at writing about men, and the same is true for women. Reading Saul Bellow is a revelation, but he can't write women. There are exceptions, like Marilynne Robinson's 'Gilead,' but generally, I think it's true.

I try to approach the film medium as a novelist and the novel medium as a filmmaker on some level. It's that question: Do we think in pictures, or do we think in language? And the novelist believes one thing, and the filmmaker believes another thing - and I'm fascinated by that balance.

I get a lot of energy from making things up, which is why I feel I'm a novelist.

What a good novelist does with a throwaway that serves no fictional purpose is throw it away.

Uzodinma Iweala is a fine and confident novelist.

When I was a child, I loved making stories, so I thought maybe I would be a novelist.

I think if I was interested in writing on my own, I would be a novelist - then you could write about yourself, and that would be it. You wouldn't need anyone else.

I know that sometimes it happens that a novelist is embarrassed about their early works. For me, it's the opposite: I believe 'Durable Goods' is the best thing I've written.

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.

My dad was very successful as a journalist, so I didn't want to be one. I wanted to be a novelist.

I think, in common with a lot of novelists, I wasn't the most athletic guy at school.

Anthony Powell was the most European of 20th-century British novelists.

In effect I am not a novelist, but rather a failed essayist who started to write novels because he didn't know how to write essays.

I'm a novelist, that's how I make my livelihood, and I concentrate on the novels.

I have tried very hard as a novelist to say, 'Novels are about individuals and especially larger than life individuals.'

I love novels, but I'm not a novelist. I'm just a dramatist, which means I write lines for actors. That's all I have ever wanted to do.

I must say, it was a lot easier writing novels than I thought it would be. I think it's because I'm a novelist at heart, and it took me a while to figure that out.

Form is, in a way, death. A novelist's obligation is to break free from the form, even though he knows that this will also be seen as artificial and distanced from life.

The novelist's obsession, moment by moment, is with language: finding the right next word.

Characters in novels sometimes radiate more energy, therefore, when we don't enter their mind. It is one of the techniques a novelist acquires instinctively—don't go into your protagonist's thoughts until you have something to say about his or her inner life that is more interesting than the reader's suppositions.

At the heart of the novelist's craft lies an optimism which thinks that the knowledge we gather from our everyday experience, if given proper form, can become valuable knowledge about reality.