Novelist Quotes
Andy Warhol is the only genius I've ever known with an I.Q. of 60.
Gore Vidal
American writer
So the news that divorced fathers are to be denied a legal right to a relationship with their children, in the long overdue review of family law published this week, fills me with horror and despair.
Louis De Bernieres
English novelist
I am in Boston right now, in fact, to do work at the New England Historical Genealogical Library, where I'm trying to finish up tracing my lineage back to the seventeenth century.
Rick Moody
American novelist
What happiness is there which is not purchased with more or less of pain?
Margaret Oliphant
Scottish novelist
Small change, small wonders - these are the currency of my endurance and ultimately of my life.
Barbara Kingsolver
American novelist
I've always seen myself in sentences. I begin to recognize myself, word by word, as I work through a sentence.
Don Delillo
American novelist
My verses stand gawping a bit. I never get used to this. They've lived here long enough.
Hugo Claus
Belgian author
Women are tenacious, and all of them should be tenacious of respect; without esteem they cannot exist; esteem is the first demand that they make of love.
Honore De Balzac
French novelist
When language fails, violence becomes a language; I never had that feeling.
Elie Wiesel
Romanian-American writer
Education is a private matter between the person and the world of knowledge and experience, and has little to do with school or college.
Lillian Smith
Writer
I wanted nothing less than to be a fiction writer when I was a kid. If you had told me I would be an artist or novelist when I grew up, I would have laughed in your face.
Caleb Carr
American military historian
In retrospect, we could see that the 1950s had been a reactionary period in America of Eisenhower blandness, of virulent anticommunism, of the 'Feminine Mystique.'
Edmund White
American novelist
The stories are there first, and they come from my experiences wandering around in the world. They will resonate into bigger things, forces sweeping the planet, themes and archetypes, but I'm not smart enough to have lucid integration of all that in my head as I'm writing.
Bob Shacochis
American novelist
Having to think so much about fictitious relationships that work or don't work, and with each relationship between characters managing to do one or other of those in its own peculiar way, I spend a lot of time thinking about relationships, real and imagined.
Nick Earls
Novelist
If you took away all pain, if everyone lived forever, everything would be bland, flat and boring; there would be no reason for art, music, newspapers, love because we would all be in a mono state of happiness.
Matt Haig
Author
Puns are a form of humor with words.
Guillermo Cabrera Infante
Cuban novelist
I've never gotten used to winter and never will.
Jamaica Kincaid
Antiguan-American novelist
The human crisis is always a crisis of understanding: what we genuinely understand we can do.
Raymond Williams
Welsh writer
Ian Rankin's Rebus is the king of modern British crime fiction. He is dour, determined, and constantly falls foul of his seniors. For all this, we root for him. He is eminently loveable, a quixotic hero moving through the darker half of a Jekyll and Hyde Edinburgh.
Mark Billingham
Novelist
The thematic bucket of vomit that I've been chained to since I was about 9 is the moral complexity of anti-heroism. I have always been interested in good people who do bad things for understandable reasons.
Neil Cross
British novelist
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