I'm inspired by playwrights, novelists, poets: The value of language has been a lifelong passion of mine. I enjoy it. I'm good at it..

You know what they say: When people start burning books they'll soon burn human beings..

When men abandon reason, physical force becomes their only means of dealing with one another and of settling disagreements..

RICE-WATER, n. A mystic beverage secretly used by our most popular novelists and poets to regulate the imagination and narcotize the conscience..

Work is against human nature. The proof is that it makes us tired..

I thought I wanted to be a journalist or a novelist..

The biggest downside to being a novelist is writing the novel..

You simply cannot invent any conspiracy theory so ridiculous and obviously satirical that some people somewhere don't already believe it..

I'm really influenced by Southern novelists, not many movie people. More like John Faulkner, William Faulkner, Erskine Caldwell, Flannery O'Connor, J….

The idea of being a novelist is really romantic, but it's kind of the same as being president of the United States - it's not gonna happen..

You must be prepared to work always without applause..

The terrorist is the one with the small bomb..

The bad novelist constructs his characters; he directs them and makes them speak. The true novelist listens to them and watches them act; he hears th….

The novelist does not long to see the lion eat grass. He realizes that one and the same God created the wolf and the lamb, then smiled, “seeing th….

More than anything I am a novelist. But for me, an author's job is not only to create linguistically accomplished works. As an author I also want to ….

I always wanted to be a fiction writer, but I couldn't figure out how you could be a novelist and make any money, which continues to be a problem for….

I think that if the novel's task is to describe where we find ourselves and how we live now, the novelist must take a good, hard look at the most cen….

For novelists or musicians, if they really want to create something, they need to go downstairs and find a passage to get into the second basement. W….

Novelists and poets have existed side by side forever..

Age could not wither nor custom stale her infinite monotony: in fact, neither Age nor Custom could do anything (as they said, their voices rising) wi….

I was writing from the time I was 12 years old, but I originally wanted to be a novelist..