#novelist

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

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

— Lena Dunham

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

— Carly Fiorina

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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

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Historians tell the story of the past, novelists the story of the present. ↗

— Edmond de Goncourt

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I maintain that if you're a novelist and you go into an art museum, you'll come out a better novelist. And if you paint a picture for an hour you're a better actor at the end of it. ↗

— John Hawkes

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But here's the thing: what you do as a screenwriter is you sell your copyright. As a novelist, as a poet, as a playwright, you maintain your copyright. ↗

— Beth Henley

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All novels are about crime. You'd be hard pressed to find any novel that does not have an element of crime. I don't see myself as a crime novelist, but there are crimes in my books. That's the nature of storytelling, if you want to reflect the real world. ↗

— Carl Hiaasen

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I never see a novel as a film while I'm writing it. Mostly because novels and films are so different, and I'm such an internal novelist. ↗

— Alice Hoffman

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I don't think any novelist should be concerned with literature. ↗

— Jacqueline Susann

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