#novelist

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

If you are a novelist of a certain type of temperament, then what you really want to do is re-invent the world. God wasn't too bad a novelist, except he was a Realist. ↗

— John Barth

#certain #except #god #novelist #realist

Not until my middle thirties did I consider myself a novelist. ↗

— Rita Mae Brown

#did #i #middle #myself #novelist

I think it's also the case that I'm not as widely travelled, or as well-educated in history, as most of the other novelists I meet: so I have to write about my own country, at the present time, because it's more or less all I know about! ↗

— Jonathan Coe

#also #because #case #country #history

There are many reasons why novelists write, but they all have one thing in common - a need to create an alternative world. ↗

— John Fowles

#common #create #many #need #novelists

Novelists have to be adept at controlling the flow of information, and, most crucially, they have to be in charge of the narrative. ↗

— Ian Mcewan

#charge #controlling #crucially #flow #information

You could say that all novels are spy novels and all novelists are spy masters. ↗

— Ian Mcewan

#masters #novelists #novels #say #spy

A whim, a passing mood, readily induces the novelist to move hearth and home elsewhere. He can always plead work as an excuse to get him out of the clutches of bothersome hosts. ↗

— C. S. Forester

#clutches #elsewhere #excuse #get #hearth

My temperament is not geared to that of a novelist. ↗

— Philip Levine

#novelist #temperament

A movie will do in one second, with one image, what it will take a novelist at least a page to describe. ↗

— Yann Martel

#image #least #movie #novelist #page