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Novelist Quotes

When I’m writing a novel, I’m dealing with a double life. I live in the present at the same time that I live in the past with my characters. It is this that makes a novelist so eccentric and unpleasant Picture Quote #1

The only way to be a novelist, to think that you can create something others will give themselves up to for a dozen hours or more, is to have psychotic self-belief Picture Quote #1

As a novelist, you could say that I am dreaming while I am awake, and every day I can continue with yesterday’s dream. Because it is a dream, there are so many contradictions and I have to adjust them to make the story work. But, in principle, the original dream does not change Picture Quote #1

As an historical novelist - there are few jobs more retrospective. I dumped science at an early age Picture Quote #1

As a novelist, where do you go to tap into memories, and impressions, and sensations? It’s usually, in my experience, your early life, before you started thinking of yourself as a writer, because somehow those experiences are unadulterated Picture Quote #1

There ought to be more grants that go to people in their late twenties and early thirties. That’s a crucial age, although it’s very hard to judge who is worth supporting and who is not. Looking back on my own life, I see that was the period when I was closest to giving up as a novelist and when I most needed some encouragement Picture Quote #1

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The movies are fun, but I’m a novelist. In many ways, screenwriting is much easier than writing novels. I find screenplays twenty times easier to write than a novel Picture Quote #1

The novelist is the person who spends a lot of his or her day thinking about the human drama and emotional complexity Picture Quote #1

I put it to you that there are no British poets, there are no British novelists. I have heard myself described as one, but I think really I’m an English novelist; there are Scottish poets and Scottish novelists Picture Quote #1

I think it’s restrictive to typecast myself as a novelist because I enjoy other forms of expression. I love literature and I love cinema Picture Quote #1

Telling ourselves that fiction is in a sense true and at the same time not true is essential to the art of fiction. It’s been at the heart of fiction from the start. Fiction offers both truth, and we know it’s a flat-out lie. Sometimes it drives a novelist mad. Sometimes it energizes us Picture Quote #1

It’s like a novelist writing far out things. If it makes a point and makes sense, then people like to read that. But if it’s off in left field and goes over the edge, you lose it. The same with musical talent, I think Picture Quote #1

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I wanted nothing less than to be a fiction writer when I was a kid. If you had told me I would be an artist or novelist when I grew up, I would have laughed in your face Picture Quote #1

Historical fiction is actually good preparation for reading SF. Both the historical novelist and the science fiction writer are writing about worlds unlike our own Picture Quote #1

As a novelist, you have to be free. Books can’t be an act of filial duty Picture Quote #1

I started my career as a novelist. ‘Veronica Mars’ was first imagined as a novel Picture Quote #1

When I say that George Eliot has long been my hero, I mean to include those aspects of her thought and temperament that have been disparaged or dismissed or ignored. She was, after all, a novelist who did not eschew politics or polemics - sometimes silently though defiantly, as in her relationship with George Henry Lewes Picture Quote #1

I was so sure I wanted to be a novelist. I would spend hours and hours every day writing. Little stories about nothing in particular. I recall one about someone with an illness. But my dedication wasn’t really healthy, and it reached the point where I wasn’t sleeping. My mum would tell me, ‘You need to go outside to get some fresh air.’ Picture Quote #1

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I don’t think I’m a natural novelist. Plot is definitely one of my weaker points. I’ve been working on it a long time, and it’s not getting much better Picture Quote #1

Back in the 1980s, when I was a lowly editorial assistant by day and trying to be a novelist by night, no God reigned so supreme as the God of literary prose Picture Quote #1

I became a novelist because of ‘Gone With the Wind,’ or more precisely, my mother raised me up to be a ‘Southern’ novelist, with a strong emphasis on the word ‘Southern’ because ‘Gone With the Wind’ set my mother’s imagination ablaze when she was a young girl growing up in Atlanta Picture Quote #1

We may, without offending any laws of good taste, require of an architect, as we do of a novelist, that he should be not only correct, but entertaining Picture Quote #1

That’s what a good crime novelist - any good novelist - should do with you: play with your perceptions while showing you everything in plain sight Picture Quote #1

I’m a novelist, editor, short story writer. I also teach, and I freelance sometimes as an arts consultant. Most of my books have been published by Warner Books, now known as Grand Central Books Picture Quote #1

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The great European novel started out as entertainment, and every true novelist is nostalgic for it. In fact, the themes of those great entertainments are terribly serious-think of Cervantes! Picture Quote #1

The art lies in setting the inner life into the most violent motion with the smallest possible expenditure of outer life; for it is the inner life which is the real object of our interest - The task of the novelist is not to narrate great events but to make small ones interesting Picture Quote #1

Only a great genius like the Victorian novelist Elizabeth Gaskell can be mother, wife and novelist without solitude. I couldn’t write until my youngest child went to school, and then I began - the first morning - and I’ve never stopped Picture Quote #1

I believe that only poetry counts ... A great novelist is first of all a great poet Picture Quote #1

A man can write one book that can be great, but this doesn’t make him a great writer-just the writer of a great book. . . I think a writer has to extend very widely, as well as plunge very deep, to be a great novelist Picture Quote #1

I’m a white, middle-class male who had a happy childhood in Ohio. The world does not need me to be a novelist Picture Quote #1

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When I’m writing a novel, I’m dealing with a double life. I live in the present at the same time that I live in the past with my characters. It is this that makes a novelist so eccentric and unpleasant. (Novelist Quotes) The only way to be a novelist, to think that you can create something others will give themselves up to for a dozen hours or more, is to have psychotic self-belief. (Novelist Quotes) As a novelist, you could say that I am dreaming while I am awake, and every day I can continue with yesterday’s dream. Because it is a dream, there are so many contradictions and I have to adjust them to make the story work. But, in principle, the original dream does not change. (Novelist Quotes) As an historical novelist - there are few jobs more retrospective. I dumped science at an early age. (Novelist Quotes) As a novelist, where do you go to tap into memories, and impressions, and sensations? It’s usually, in my experience, your early life, before you started thinking of yourself as a writer, because somehow those experiences are unadulterated. (Novelist Quotes) There ought to be more grants that go to people in their late twenties and early thirties. That’s a crucial age, although it’s very hard to judge who is worth supporting and who is not. Looking back on my own life, I see that was the period when I was closest to giving up as a novelist and when I most needed some encouragement. (Novelist Quotes) The movies are fun, but I’m a novelist. In many ways, screenwriting is much easier than writing novels. I find screenplays twenty times easier to write than a novel. (Novelist Quotes) The novelist is the person who spends a lot of his or her day thinking about the human drama and emotional complexity. (Novelist Quotes) I put it to you that there are no British poets, there are no British novelists. I have heard myself described as one, but I think really I’m an English novelist; there are Scottish poets and Scottish novelists. (Novelist Quotes) I think it’s restrictive to typecast myself as a novelist because I enjoy other forms of expression. I love literature and I love cinema. (Novelist Quotes) Telling ourselves that fiction is in a sense true and at the same time not true is essential to the art of fiction. It’s been at the heart of fiction from the start. Fiction offers both truth, and we know it’s a flat-out lie. Sometimes it drives a novelist mad. Sometimes it energizes us. (Novelist Quotes) It’s like a novelist writing far out things. If it makes a point and makes sense, then people like to read that. But if it’s off in left field and goes over the edge, you lose it. The same with musical talent, I think. (Novelist Quotes) I wanted nothing less than to be a fiction writer when I was a kid. If you had told me I would be an artist or novelist when I grew up, I would have laughed in your face. (Novelist Quotes) Historical fiction is actually good preparation for reading SF. Both the historical novelist and the science fiction writer are writing about worlds unlike our own. (Novelist Quotes) As a novelist, you have to be free. Books can’t be an act of filial duty. (Novelist Quotes) I started my career as a novelist. ‘Veronica Mars’ was first imagined as a novel. (Novelist Quotes) When I say that George Eliot has long been my hero, I mean to include those aspects of her thought and temperament that have been disparaged or dismissed or ignored. She was, after all, a novelist who did not eschew politics or polemics - sometimes silently though defiantly, as in her relationship with George Henry Lewes. (Novelist Quotes) I was so sure I wanted to be a novelist. I would spend hours and hours every day writing. Little stories about nothing in particular. I recall one about someone with an illness. But my dedication wasn’t really healthy, and it reached the point where I wasn’t sleeping. My mum would tell me, ‘You need to go outside to get some fresh air.’ (Novelist Quotes) I don’t think I’m a natural novelist. Plot is definitely one of my weaker points. I’ve been working on it a long time, and it’s not getting much better. (Novelist Quotes) Back in the 1980s, when I was a lowly editorial assistant by day and trying to be a novelist by night, no God reigned so supreme as the God of literary prose. (Novelist Quotes) I became a novelist because of ‘Gone With the Wind,’ or more precisely, my mother raised me up to be a ‘Southern’ novelist, with a strong emphasis on the word ‘Southern’ because ‘Gone With the Wind’ set my mother’s imagination ablaze when she was a young girl growing up in Atlanta. (Novelist Quotes) We may, without offending any laws of good taste, require of an architect, as we do of a novelist, that he should be not only correct, but entertaining. (Novelist Quotes) That’s what a good crime novelist - any good novelist - should do with you: play with your perceptions while showing you everything in plain sight. (Novelist Quotes) I’m a novelist, editor, short story writer. I also teach, and I freelance sometimes as an arts consultant. Most of my books have been published by Warner Books, now known as Grand Central Books. (Novelist Quotes) The great European novel started out as entertainment, and every true novelist is nostalgic for it. In fact, the themes of those great entertainments are terribly serious-think of Cervantes! (Novelist Quotes) The art lies in setting the inner life into the most violent motion with the smallest possible expenditure of outer life; for it is the inner life which is the real object of our interest - The task of the novelist is not to narrate great events but to make small ones interesting. (Novelist Quotes) Only a great genius like the Victorian novelist Elizabeth Gaskell can be mother, wife and novelist without solitude. I couldn’t write until my youngest child went to school, and then I began - the first morning - and I’ve never stopped. (Novelist Quotes) I believe that only poetry counts ... A great novelist is first of all a great poet. (Novelist Quotes) A man can write one book that can be great, but this doesn’t make him a great writer-just the writer of a great book. . . I think a writer has to extend very widely, as well as plunge very deep, to be a great novelist. (Novelist Quotes) I’m a white, middle-class male who had a happy childhood in Ohio. The world does not need me to be a novelist. (Novelist Quotes)

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