139 Quotes About Novelist

A novelist is an elephant, but an elephant who must pretend to forget.

Now that I was a novelist, I could not face the ignominy of failing to produce novels.

Novelist: Telling lies for fun and profit.

Moonrise is a fabulous novel and my damn wife wrote it and that’s me up there near Highlands shouting it out to the hills.

Read. Read as if your life depended on it because your life as a novelist does.

It is better to be defeated on principles, than to win on lies.

Fiction is overrated, Fly. We’ve discussed this. In the time it takes those novelist fuckers to contemplate a few poetic passages, a thousand kids die from malnutrition. Immediacy, man, that’s what counts.

Novelist: A person who has more than a dozen novels in the works and thinks it would be novel to finish one.

I wish people would think of me as a musician who writes novels, instead of a novelist who writes music on the side.