Lawrence Kelter is an exciting new novelist, who reminds me of an early Robert Ludlum..

Copywriters, journalists, mainstream authors, ghostwriters, bloggers and advertising creatives have as much right to think of themselves as good writ….

I knew Id always be a second-rate academic, and I thought, Well, Id rather be a second-rate novelist or even a third-rate one..

When I began to read as an adult, my first big enthusiasm was Evelyn Waugh. I read almost exclusively novelists of a generation back. I did the Russi….

The business of the poet and the novelist is to show the sorriness underlying the grandest things and the grandeur underlying the sorriest things..

Today there are a lot of novelists who seem to be writing to be reviewed, not read..

Henry James claim that if you want to be a novelist you should be somebody on whom nothing is lost..

Novelists of a conservative or more purely aesthetic bent hold up better on the surface, but their novels go in and out of fashion according to relev….

I'm a novelist, not a social scientist or a commentator..

A woman filled with faith in the one she loves is the creation of a novelist's imagination..

Being an unpublished novelist has about as much social acceptability as being a shopping bag lady..

Sometimes I wonder why I'm a novelist right now. There is no definite career reason why I became a writer. Something happened, and I became a writer.….

Never say you know the last word about any human heart..

An urban novelist never minds a little decay..

Morality for the novelist is expressed not so much in the choice of subject matter as in the plot of the narrative, which is perhaps why in our moral….

No matter how little a man has he will find that he will always settle for less..

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 a….

I know I'm a rare person, a trained scientist who writes fiction, because so few contemporary novelists engage with science..

Novelists tell that piece of truth hidden at the bottom of every lie..

For a novelist, the gaps in a story are as intriguing as material that still exists..

There seems almost a general wish of descrying the capacity and undervaluing the labour of the novelist, and of slighting the performances which have….