#novelist

To me, the newspaper business was a way to learn about life and how things worked in the real world and how people spoke. You learn all the skills - you learn to listen, you learn to take notes - everything you use later as a novelist was valuable training in the newspaper world. But I always wanted to write novels. ↗

— Carl Hiaasen

#always #business #everything #how #i

A novelist has a specific poetic license which also applies to his own life. ↗

— Jerzy Kosinski

#applies #his #license #life #novelist

Read a thousand books, and your words will flow like a river. ↗

— Lisa See

#novelists #reading #storytellers #storytelling #writers

I'm always determined that as a novelist I'm going to go out there and research my characters very thoroughly before I start writing. ↗

— Chris Cleave

#before #characters #determined #go #going

Among the many problems which beset the novelist, not the least weighty is the choice of the moment at which to begin his novel. ↗

— Vita Sackville-West

#begin #beset #choice #his #least

I don't really consider myself a novelist, it just came out purely by accident. ↗

— Wole Soyinka

#came #consider #i #just #myself

I'm a big, bombastic novelist and thrill-ride guy. I'm never going to win the National Book Award. ↗

— Seth Graham-Smith

#big #book #going #guy #i

I put it to you that there are no British poets, there are no British novelists. I have heard myself described as one, but I think really I'm an English novelist; there are Scottish poets and Scottish novelists. ↗

— Ian Mcewan

#described #english #heard #i #i think

She'll be an excellent novelist: a monster of self-absorption. ↗

— Lan Samantha Chang

#self-absorbtion #change

If you hear voices, you’re a lunatic. If you write down what they say, you’re an author. ↗

— Dani Harper

#humor #novelist #writing #humor