Top Novelist Quotes

There is no revelation in my words. I am merely stating what others have forgotten to write down.

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.

Novelist Definition

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

(n.) A writer of news.

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

I came to pen another poem for you, but even every unwritten poem is you.

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

Every book has to wait for the right time to be read and understood.

It is a dangerous thing to substitute reading or writing for living. Live first, then write.

Edinburgh is a comfortable puddle for a novelist.

A novelist's characters must be with him as he lies down to sleep, and as he wakes from his dreams. He must learn to hate them and to love them.

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

Writers possess magic. It's in their w

A short story is a sprint, a novel is a marathon. Sprinters have seconds to get from here to there and then they are finished. Marathoners have to carefully pace themselves so that they don't run out...

She was in awe of all his work. 'How do you do it?" she asked.He smiled and said, 'By loving you.

I think the writer is initially set going by literature more than by life. When there are many writers all employing the same idiom, all looking out on more or less the same social scene, the individu...

A novelist is essentially a person who covers distance through his patience, slowly, like an ant. A novelist impresses us not by his demonic and romantic vision, but by his patience.

I'm a professional writer and I consider it part of my job to publicise my work and these days part of that job is done online.

Not writing is never an option. This is not words of advice. It's just literally never an option!

On Twitter, people who had read my book followed me and I could see what else they were reading, why they'd liked what I'd written and by the by, more about them than I'd ever elicit from two minutes...

There is one myth about writers that I have always felt was particularly pernicious and untruthful—the myth of the lonely writer, the myth that writing is a lonely occupation, involving much suffering...

A deed done to others, but for yourself is not a worthy one at all. Instead, place another before you; in this way, you can be sure your moral compass always points North.

I think that at the bottom of all art lies the impulse to preserve.