Everything written, if it has anything in it, will offend someone, and if the mere taking of offence was to amount to a licence to kill the offender,….

The business of the novelist is not to relate great events, but to make small ones interesting..

A novelist is someone who sits around the house all day in his underwear, trying not to smoke..

To call Clive Barker a 'horror novelist' would be like calling the Beatles a 'garage band'... He is the great imaginer of our time. He knows not only….

The novelist helps us to see things we might not notice otherwise..

We're all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn't. We are terrorized and flattened by trivia….

Alternate history fascinates me, as it fascinates all novelists, because 'What if?' is the big thing..

I'm a natural novelist. I'm interested in the person and the group, and how they mesh. And one of the ways I don't want them to mesh is for the perso….

Language is courage: the ability to conceive a thought, to speak it, and by doing so to make it true..

There's no way to know what makes one thing happen and not another. What leads to what. What destroys what. What causes what to flourish or die or ta….

I get work because I'm primarily a novelist but I've become script doctor. I can work back and forth between French and English..

If this were fiction, could even the most brilliant novelist contrive to make credible so short a period in which pride had been subdued and prejudic….

Novelists should never allow themselves to weary of the study of real life..

When it [truth] emerges it often bears out the saying that 'truth is stranger than fiction.' A novelist has to appear plausible, and would hesitate t….

A novelist has mad a fictional representation of life. I doing so, he has revealed to us more significance, it may be, than he could find in life its….

Dreams cannot be tamed. Dreamers cannot be ruled..

I am a huge fan of Alan Furst. Furst is the best in the business--the most talented espionage novelist of our generation..

Human nature provides the lyrics, and we novelists just compose the music..

I do think there's some aspect of being a novelist that is a little crazy making..

It seemed to me you could do anything in comics. So I started doing my thing, which is mainly influenced by novelists, stand-up comedians, that sort ….

There are seeds of self-destruction in all of us that will bear only unhappiness if allowed to grow..