Not until my middle thirties did I consider myself a novelist..

Whether you're an unpublished novelist or a sixteen-time New York Times bestselling author, you can always improve your craft. You can always become ….

I loathe your ideals because I know no worse injustice than the giving of the undeserved..

The next time the novelist rings the bell I will not stir though the meeting-house burn down..

Everyone assumes that novelists are smarter and more interesting. They're generally smarter and more interesting, but they're often very short. So it….

Kingsley Amis was one of a trio of brilliant comic novelists who made English literature sparkle in the twentieth century..

I am a master of fiction. I am also the greatest crime novelist who ever lived. I am to the crime novel in specific what Tolstoy is to the Russian no….

Charlie Huston, who showran the first season [of Powers], is a novelist, and likes to internalize fiction as a novelist does..

The ancient historians gave us delightful fiction in the form of fact; the modern novelist presents us with dull facts under the guise of fiction..

You're a wizard, Harry..

What's not realized about good novelists is that they're as competitive as good athletes. They study each other - where the other person is good and ….

Do remember, though, that sometimes the people you oppress become mightier than you would like..

For a novelist, it's kind of an onerous burden to represent an entire culture..

Most novelists I know went through a period of intense self-examination and self-loathing after the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center. I ce….

Even if I couldn't get my early novels published, I could still write. I went into newspapers, where I got paid to write every day. If there's a bett….

If a person is not talented enough to be a novelist, not smart enough to be a lawyer, and his hands are too shaky to perform operations, he becomes a….

A novelist is on the cusp between someone who knows everything and someone who knows nothing..

I couldn't be a novelist for instance. It feels like a very lonely endeavor. I don't know that I could survive the solitude of that..

Novelists want to flood, poets want to distill..

Miss Austen had shown the infinite possibilities of ordinary and present things for the novelist..

Nicholas Sparks recently went on record as saying he is a greater novelist than Cormac McCarthy. This is true in the same sense that I am a better no….