139 Quotes About Novelist

On every page, confidence fights with self-doubt. Every sentence is an act of faith. Why would anybody want to do it?

The novelist is more like a pregnant woman who delivers her own child unaided. A messy procedure, with lots of groaning.

Love is something that is beyond us. We can't anticipate love. When, where and with whom we fall in love is coincidental and wonderful for the same reason.

Life is full of beautiful moments. Live your life to the fullest. And do what youlove.

A novelist is essentially a person who covers distance through his patience, slowly, like an ant. A novelist impresses us not by his demonic and romantic vision, but by his patience.

If your not annoying somebody, you're not alive.

Congratulations Tomi Adeyemi on your breakout novel CHILDREN OF BLOOD AND BONE. A project catching fire, such as this one has, is the hope (not a guarantee) of every storyteller. Hemingway said it best, 'It is the journey that matters, in the end.

...Cody is furiously explaining to his little son Tim 'Never let the right hand know what your left hand is doing'...Page 100.

Really there was no deadlier combination than bookworm and megalomaniac. It was, for example, the crazed condition of many novelists and travelers.