#novelist

Novelists are not equipped to make a movie, in my opinion. They make their own movie when they write: they're casting, they're dressing the scene, they're working out where the energy of the scene is coming from and they're also relying tremendously on the creative imagination of the reader. ↗

— John le Carre

#casting #coming #creative #dressing #energy

I'm not a biographer, I'm a novelist. ↗

— Barry Unsworth

#i #novelist

America may have great poets and novelists, but she never will have more than one necromancer. ↗

— Rebecca Harding Davis

#great #may #more #never #novelists

You have to go out of your way as a suspense novelist to find situations where the protagonists are somewhat helpless and in real danger. ↗

— Nelson DeMille

#find #go #helpless #novelist #out

Things that appear on the front page of the newspaper as 'fact' are far more dangerous than the games played by a novelist, and can lead to wars. ↗

— E. L. Doctorow

#dangerous #fact #far #front #games

I thought I wanted to be a journalist or a novelist. ↗

— Lena Dunham

#journalist #novelist #thought #wanted

Noir is dead for me because historically, I think it's a simple view. I've taken it as far as it can go. I think I've expanded on it a great deal, taken it further than any other American novelist. ↗

— James Ellroy

#any #as far as #because #dead #deal

Well I'm not a novelist. I've only written one book and that is a memoir. ↗

— Carly Fiorina

#i #memoir #novelist #only #well

We all now tell stories by cutting from one dramatic scene to the next, whereas Victorian novelists felt free to write long passages of undramatic summary. ↗

— Ken Follett

#dramatic #felt #free #long #next

Jane Austen was an extraordinary woman; to actually be able to survive as a novelist in those days - unmarried - was just unheard of. ↗

— Julie Walters

#actually #austen #days #extraordinary #jane