Quotes About Creativity

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

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

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

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.

You know, my mom, who inspired me to be a novelist, I remember her reading 'The Agony and the Ecstasy,' about Michelangelo, and saying, 'No mother would want that for her child, no matter how great the artist.' I have my share of demons, but I am a gregarious sort.

I've always liked the idea that writing is a form of travel. And I started my writing career as a mystery novelist for adults.

In high school, I wanted to be an actress. Until I got to college and took some creative writing courses. Then I decided I wanted to become a novelist.

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.

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.

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'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.

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.

Really, what you should tell a novelist is, 'Keep going until you finish the draft. Don't show it to anyone.'

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

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

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

I wouldn't sit down and work at writing a song like a novelist or something.