139 Quotes About Novelist

I'm a novelist by trade and my job is to write a story rather than reconstruct actual events.

I'm afraid I don't much care for firearms," she said. "Poisons are more my thing.

Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he isn't. A sense of humor was provided to console him for what he is.

I was asked the other day in which era I would choose to live. As a historical novelist, it comes up sometimes. As a woman I'd have to say I'd like to live in the future - I want to see where these centuries of change are leading us.

Film and novel characters are often stereotyped, but racial stereotyping in many novels or films creates & encourages labelling, discrimination & racism. ~Angelica Hopes

An authors publication date never matters, a book not read yet will always be New"...

اگر آدم فقط پنج شش کتاب را به خوبی می شناخت، چه محقق برجسته ای می شد

The novelist must discover the potential, the gold mine, of man’s soul, must extract the gold and then fashion as magnificent a crown as his ability and vision permit.

A warm sunny evening, the plash and gurgle of the waves in the rock pools, the rush of the cold gin. I thought for the first time of my novel, abandoned, all these years, and I came up, unprompted, with the perfect title. Octet. Octet by Logan Mountstuart. Perhaps I will surprise them all, yet.