153 Quotes About Novelists

Novelist by day; screenwriter by night.

Novelists invent characters; poets invent themselves.

All the great novelists were realists in the deepest sense of the word and that is why they were able to write great fiction.

Passionate attraction to someone of the opposite sex will make a hero or a fool of a novelist each time.

Novelists are basically inviting their readers to play a game of pretend. That's what fiction is: a game of pretend.

Then she wants to say that, oh, Christ, of course she knows, the condescension Europeans shower on Americans is not always warranted; she's a novelist, which is tantamount to being a one-woman card catalogue for useless knowledge.

We're all in a steel cage, jousting for literary relevance among a sea of true talent. Our way out of this Thunderdome is not through any given contract by any given publisher. Our way out, the key needed to escape said cage is in our sui generis ability to tell the shit out of a story. Go forward, woke.

Every chapter is an adventure.

Try everything; listen to everyone. Follow no one. You are your own story guru!