Top Novelist Quotes

In the very end, all we have left to atone for our faults are words.

I became an artist because I wanted to be an active participant in the conversation about art.

Novelist Definition

(n.) An innovator; an asserter of novelty.

(n.) A writer of news.

(n.) A writer of a novel or novels.

She might not have read many books. But when she reads a book, she swallows the very words. If you open the books on her shelves, you will find that the front and back covers encase white pages.

Reading poetry is like undressing before a bath. You don't undress out of fear that your clothes will become wet. You undress because you want the water to touch you. You want to completely immerse yo...

If you write then you are reborn because by writing about the moment, you can relive it for a second time.

Sit here, so I may writeyou into a poem and make you eternal.

As you write your novel, you gradually start thinking like some of your characters in it. And at times the writer may lose himself completely in some character.

Sometimes I don't even know why I'm writing what I'm writing...I'm just following these people around and taking notes.

I am going to build a fortress of books.Will you come inside and live with me?

I remember calling the council's cemetery department to ask about body decomposition in different soil types. Once they had verified that I was a novelist and not a sicko, they were extremely helpful.

Every exceptional writer holds a Master of Arts in Daydreaming.

I was forced to wander, having no one, forced by my nature to keep wandering because wandering was the only thing that I believed in, and the only thing that believed in me.

The novelist is required to create the illusion of a whole world with believable people in it, and the chief difference between the novelist who is an orthodox Christian and the novelist who is merely...

For a novelist, the gaps in a story are as intriguing as material that still exists.

These poems are cupsthat I pour my life into.Here, Drink!

I only wrote prose before I met you. My musings were superfluous and serious as well. But now the words dance with me. I sing with them and we create poetry.

As a historical novelist, there is very little I like more than spending time sorting through boxes of old letters, diaries, maps, trinkets, and baubles.

People make interesting assumptions about the profession. The writer is a mysterious figure, wandering lonely as a cloud, fired by inspiration, or perhaps a cocktail or two.

Sometimes, when inspiration runs dry, I drink classical music until my words spill out.

There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book.Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.