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Novelist Quotes

For a novelist, a given historic situation is an anthropologic laboratory in which he explores his basic question: What is human existence Picture Quote #1

If the novelist isn’t surprised by where his book ends up, he or she probably hasn’t written anything worth remembering Picture Quote #1

A novelist writes a novel, and people read it. But reading is a solitary act. While it may elicit a varied and personal response, the communal nature of the audience is like having five hundred people read your novel and respond to it at the same time. I find that thrilling Picture Quote #1

The contemporary American novelist benefits in a way from being ignored. It makes you angrier and makes you want to go into all of those places where you shouldnt Picture Quote #1

I have an English literature degree. I wanted to be the next great American novelist from a very early age, but I put it aside for a while, because I got very realistic at one point Picture Quote #1

The utmost the American novelist can hope for, if he hopes at all to see his work included in the literature of his time, is that it may eventually be found to be along in the direction of the growing tip of collective consciousness. Preeminently the novelist’s gift is that of access to the collective mind Picture Quote #1

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I probably would have gone the M.F.A. route except I was a dad at 19, and it made more sense to go to work for a newspaper and support a kid that way. But the funny thing is, that detour became the most important step in my developing as a novelist Picture Quote #1

For a spy novelist like me, the Edward J. Snowden story has everything. A man driven by ego and idealism - can anyone ever distinguish the two? - leaves his job and his beautiful girlfriend behind. He must tell the world the Panopticon has arrived. His masters vow to punish him, and he heads for Moscow in a desperate search for refuge Picture Quote #1

There are two ways to look at my publishing career. One is that I’m a novelist churning out books, who is eight into a series; the other way is that I’m a cartoonist, just starting out. Most cartoonists have long careers: Charles Schulz drew Peanuts for 50 years Picture Quote #1

It sounds schmaltzy to say, but fiction is much more to do with love than people admit or acknowledge. The novelist has to not only love his characters - which you do, without even thinking about it, just as you love your children. But also to love the reader, and that’s what I mean by the pleasure principle Picture Quote #1

I write about life as it exists within houses and on the streets. And there’s nothing, hopefully, in any of my characterizations or in any of my plottings or in any of my valuations that doesn’t ring true to life. I’m a novelist. I’m not a theoretician Picture Quote #1

Americans would have a right to go to war with the Iraqis if we could name one author from Iraq. It disturbs me that we’re going to war with somebody we know absolutely nothing about. Name one Iraqi poet, one Iraqi woman activist, one Iraqi singer. Name one Iraqi novelist. You can’t. And how can you go kill someone you don’t know anything about? Picture Quote #1

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The novelist loses, every time. Politics is insidious, the modern conduct of war (from shoulder-launched rockets to drone strikes) is insidious. Someone presses a button in California and twenty people are incinerated at a wedding in Pakistan. The killer is spared the sight of the corpses Picture Quote #1

How can a novelist achieve atonement when with her absolute power of deciding outcomes, she is also god? Picture Quote #1

The novel, for me, was an accident. I really don’t consider myself a novelist Picture Quote #1

I am a former newspaper reporter turned church secretary turned vampire novelist. I wrote my first complete novel, ‘Nice Girls Don’t Have Fangs,’ at night while I was working as the receptionist for a Baptist church. That was an interesting conversation with the pastor Picture Quote #1

I was a frustrated musician, frustrated designer, frustrated art director, frustrated novelist, right. I’d fail at all these different professions Picture Quote #1

You perhaps know me as a novelist. Literature is one of the arts - in fact, the noblest of the arts. That is not my opinion; it was first expressed by the ancients. As art, literature has many similarities with the other art forms Picture Quote #1

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As a romance novelist, I have a rather skewed view of babies. You see, they don’t typically fit into the classic structure of the romance novel - romance is about two people finding each other and falling in love against insurmountable odds. Babies... well... babies are complicated Picture Quote #1

That balance between involvement and detachment is what novelists do. It’s the ideal relationship between a novelist and a character, I think, total involvement and identity and empathy, stopping short of being autobiographical - in my case, anyway - but also quite detached Picture Quote #1

Jane Austen was an extraordinary woman; to actually be able to survive as a novelist in those days - unmarried - was just unheard of Picture Quote #1

I’d be far too self-conscious and insecure if I suspected my editor might be a better novelist than I Picture Quote #1

I want to be a popular novelist who’s also serious, or a serious novelist who’s also very accessible Picture Quote #1

The novelist can’t successfully depict such horrifying reality. But she can, and must, try, to bear witness. There are many ways of doing this; the mode I prefer is indirect Picture Quote #1

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Yes, but also one of the problems for a novelist in Ireland is the fact that there are no formal manners. I mean some people have beautiful manners but there’s no kind of agreed form of manners Picture Quote #1

Being an unpublished novelist has about as much social acceptability as being a shopping bag lady Picture Quote #1

Floating Worlds,’ published in 1975 and the lone science fiction novel by acclaimed historical novelist Cecelia Holland, was unique in being completely devoid of the usual pulp influences present in much space opera up to that time Picture Quote #1

I do think there’s some aspect of being a novelist that is a little crazy making Picture Quote #1

Being a novelist is hard for anyone - male or female. You don’t get to quit your day job Picture Quote #1

Being a novelist and being a mother have exactly coincided in my life: the call from my agent saying that I had a contract for my first novel - that was on my answering phone message when I got back from the hospital with my first child Picture Quote #1

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For a novelist, a given historic situation is an anthropologic laboratory in which he explores his basic question: What is human existence (Novelist Quotes) If the novelist isn’t surprised by where his book ends up, he or she probably hasn’t written anything worth remembering (Novelist Quotes) A novelist writes a novel, and people read it. But reading is a solitary act. While it may elicit a varied and personal response, the communal nature of the audience is like having five hundred people read your novel and respond to it at the same time. I find that thrilling (Novelist Quotes) The contemporary American novelist benefits in a way from being ignored. It makes you angrier and makes you want to go into all of those places where you shouldnt (Novelist Quotes) I have an English literature degree. I wanted to be the next great American novelist from a very early age, but I put it aside for a while, because I got very realistic at one point (Novelist Quotes) The utmost the American novelist can hope for, if he hopes at all to see his work included in the literature of his time, is that it may eventually be found to be along in the direction of the growing tip of collective consciousness. Preeminently the novelist’s gift is that of access to the collective mind (Novelist Quotes) I probably would have gone the M.F.A. route except I was a dad at 19, and it made more sense to go to work for a newspaper and support a kid that way. But the funny thing is, that detour became the most important step in my developing as a novelist (Novelist Quotes) For a spy novelist like me, the Edward J. Snowden story has everything. A man driven by ego and idealism - can anyone ever distinguish the two? - leaves his job and his beautiful girlfriend behind. He must tell the world the Panopticon has arrived. His masters vow to punish him, and he heads for Moscow in a desperate search for refuge (Novelist Quotes) There are two ways to look at my publishing career. One is that I’m a novelist churning out books, who is eight into a series; the other way is that I’m a cartoonist, just starting out. Most cartoonists have long careers: Charles Schulz drew Peanuts for 50 years (Novelist Quotes) It sounds schmaltzy to say, but fiction is much more to do with love than people admit or acknowledge. The novelist has to not only love his characters - which you do, without even thinking about it, just as you love your children. But also to love the reader, and that’s what I mean by the pleasure principle (Novelist Quotes) I write about life as it exists within houses and on the streets. And there’s nothing, hopefully, in any of my characterizations or in any of my plottings or in any of my valuations that doesn’t ring true to life. I’m a novelist. I’m not a theoretician (Novelist Quotes) Americans would have a right to go to war with the Iraqis if we could name one author from Iraq. It disturbs me that we’re going to war with somebody we know absolutely nothing about. Name one Iraqi poet, one Iraqi woman activist, one Iraqi singer. Name one Iraqi novelist. You can’t. And how can you go kill someone you don’t know anything about? (Novelist Quotes) The novelist loses, every time. Politics is insidious, the modern conduct of war (from shoulder-launched rockets to drone strikes) is insidious. Someone presses a button in California and twenty people are incinerated at a wedding in Pakistan. The killer is spared the sight of the corpses (Novelist Quotes) How can a novelist achieve atonement when with her absolute power of deciding outcomes, she is also god? (Novelist Quotes) The novel, for me, was an accident. I really don’t consider myself a novelist. (Novelist Quotes) I am a former newspaper reporter turned church secretary turned vampire novelist. I wrote my first complete novel, ‘Nice Girls Don’t Have Fangs,’ at night while I was working as the receptionist for a Baptist church. That was an interesting conversation with the pastor. (Novelist Quotes) I was a frustrated musician, frustrated designer, frustrated art director, frustrated novelist, right. I’d fail at all these different professions. (Novelist Quotes) You perhaps know me as a novelist. Literature is one of the arts - in fact, the noblest of the arts. That is not my opinion; it was first expressed by the ancients. As art, literature has many similarities with the other art forms. (Novelist Quotes) As a romance novelist, I have a rather skewed view of babies. You see, they don’t typically fit into the classic structure of the romance novel - romance is about two people finding each other and falling in love against insurmountable odds. Babies... well... babies are complicated. (Novelist Quotes) That balance between involvement and detachment is what novelists do. It’s the ideal relationship between a novelist and a character, I think, total involvement and identity and empathy, stopping short of being autobiographical - in my case, anyway - but also quite detached. (Novelist Quotes) Jane Austen was an extraordinary woman; to actually be able to survive as a novelist in those days - unmarried - was just unheard of. (Novelist Quotes) I’d be far too self-conscious and insecure if I suspected my editor might be a better novelist than I. (Novelist Quotes) I want to be a popular novelist who’s also serious, or a serious novelist who’s also very accessible. (Novelist Quotes) The novelist can’t successfully depict such horrifying reality. But she can, and must, try, to bear witness. There are many ways of doing this; the mode I prefer is indirect. (Novelist Quotes) Yes, but also one of the problems for a novelist in Ireland is the fact that there are no formal manners. I mean some people have beautiful manners but there’s no kind of agreed form of manners. (Novelist Quotes) Being an unpublished novelist has about as much social acceptability as being a shopping bag lady (Novelist Quotes) Floating Worlds,’ published in 1975 and the lone science fiction novel by acclaimed historical novelist Cecelia Holland, was unique in being completely devoid of the usual pulp influences present in much space opera up to that time. (Novelist Quotes) I do think there’s some aspect of being a novelist that is a little crazy making (Novelist Quotes) Being a novelist is hard for anyone - male or female. You don’t get to quit your day job. (Novelist Quotes) Being a novelist and being a mother have exactly coincided in my life: the call from my agent saying that I had a contract for my first novel - that was on my answering phone message when I got back from the hospital with my first child. (Novelist Quotes)

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