153 Quotes About Novelists

With the right tools, you can write anything ...

To be motivated to write a novel, I need to be unable not to write.

No poet or novelist wishes he was the only one who ever lived, but most of them wish they were the only one alive, and quite a number believe their wish has been granted.

There are many ways in which songs differ from books, but both songwriters and novelists are looking for material that will somehow mean something beyond itself, something that contains echoes and ironies and texture and complication.something both timely and timeless

I don't like books which give me the answers. I love books that give me the questions

It eases my soul that I share a house with [Cassandra King] a novelist of such rare and distinctive gifts.

Copywriters, journalists, mainstream authors, ghostwriters, bloggers and advertising creatives have as much right to think of themselves as good writers as academics, poets, or literary novelists.

Writing - the act of one person giving a piece of their soul to another.

But the other Ministers considered that to employ a magician was one thing, novelists were quite another and they would not stoop to it.