#novelists

Novelists and poets have existed side by side forever. ↗

— Stan Brakhage

#forever #novelists #poets #side

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

— Rebecca Harding Davis

#great #may #more #never #novelists

One of the admirable features of British novelists is that they have no scruple about setting their stories in foreign settings with wholly foreign personnel. ↗

— James Buchan

#admirable #british #features #foreign #novelists

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

The truth is that I know very few novelists who have been satisfied with the adaptation of their books for the screen. ↗

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#been #books #few #i #know

The bicycle, the bicycle surely, should always be the vehicle of novelists and poets. ↗

— Christopher Morley

#bicycle #novelists #poets #should #surely

Everyone assumes that novelists are smarter and more interesting. They're generally smarter and more interesting, but they're often very short. So it kind of cancels all the smart and interesting stuff out. ↗

— Liev Schreiber

#everyone #generally #interesting #interesting stuff #kind

Like most novelists, I like to do exactly the opposite of what I'm told. It's in my nature as a novelist. Novelists can't trust anything they haven't seen with their own eyes or touched with their own hands. (Jerusalem Prize acceptance speech, JERUSALEM POST, Feb. 15, 2009) ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#truth #writers #writing #nature

Novelists are always resisting autobiographical readings of their work, because they know how false those can be. ↗

— Jeffrey Eugenides

#autobiographical #because #false #how #know

Some Pulitzer winners - novelists - have confided to me that getting the prize screwed them up. It messed with their heads. That hasn't been my experience. ↗

— Jeffrey Eugenides

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