Novelist Quotes

“I was forced to wander, having no one, forced by my nature to keep wandering because wandering was the only thing that I believed in, and the only thing that believed in me.”
― Roman Payne

“I bleed words.
I dream in narrative.
I live in infinite worlds.
I befriend figmental characters.
I wish on stars in other galaxies.
I harvest stories from a brooding muse.
I bloom under moonlight in hushed seclusion.
I am a writer.”
― Richelle E. Goodrich

“Why are you behaving like this? You know how much I love you … and I
believe you love me as much, so why are you avoiding me?”
― santonu Kumar Dhar, Life of Love

“Sometimes I don't even know why I'm writing what I'm writing...
I'm just following these people around and taking notes.”
― P. Anastasia

“Every exceptional writer holds a Master of Arts in Daydreaming.”
― Richelle E. Goodrich

“The moment I close my eyes, I see you and sleep vanishes. I’m awake the entire night, revisiting our
memories together. The night seems to stretch on forever.”
― Santonu Kumar Dhar

“I love you so much. Our love is eternal.”
― Santonu Kumar Dhar, Life of Love

“Passionate attraction to someone of the opposite sex will make a hero or a fool of a novelist each time.”
― Roman Payne, The Love of Europa: Limited Time Edition

“Persons curious in chronology may, if they like, work out from what they already know of the Wimsey family that the action of the book takes place in 1935; but if they do, they must not be querulously indignant because the King's Jubilee is not mentioned, or because I have arranged the weather and the moon's changes to suit my own fancy. For, however realistic the background, the novelist's only native country is Cloud-Cuckooland, where they do but jest, poison in jest: no offence in the world.”
― Dorothy L. Sayers, Gaudy Night

“It is possible to be a great novelist - that is, to render a veracious account of your times - and a bad writer - that is, an incompetent practitioner of applied linguistics.”
― Angela Carter

“The Adventure called and I followed with my thumb like a character being written by an intractable author. Which, of course, I was.”
― Sol Luckman, Beginner's Luke

“Love is something that is beyond us. We can't anticipate love. When, where and with whom we fall in love is coincidental and wonderful for the same reason.”
― Santonu Kumar Dhar, Life of Love

“I know you would be watching over me all through this journey called life... whenever I look next to me, I feel like you are
here... and a part of you is within me in the form of this child... Love is like the wind... you may not see it... especially in the absence of the other... but you always feel it around...”
― Santonu Kumar Dhar, Life of Love

“An authors publication date never matters, a book not read yet will always be New"...”
― Author Catherine Lyon a

“I gain nothing but pleasure from writing fiction; short stories are foreplay, novellas are heavy petting – but novels are the full monte. Frankly, if I didn't enjoy writing novels I wouldn't do it – the world hardly needs any more and I can think of numerous more useful things someone with my skills could be engaged in. As it is, the immersion in parallel but believable worlds satisfies all my demands for vicarious experience, voyeurism and philosophic calithenics. I even enjoy the mechanics of writing, the dull timpani of the typewriter keys, the making of notes – many notes – and most seducttive of all: the buying of stationery. That the transmogrification of my beautiful thoughts into a grossly imperfect prose is always the end result doesn't faze me: all novels are only a version- there is no Platonic ideal. But I'd go further still: fiction is my way of thinking about and relating to the world; if I don't write I'm not engaged in any praxis, and lose all purchase.”
― Will Self

“I'm not asking you to come reverently or unquestioningly; I'm not asking you to be politically correct or cast aside your sense of humor (please God you have one). This isn't a popularity contest, it's not the moral Olympics, and it's not church. But it's Writing, damn it, not washing the car or putting on eyeliner. If you can take it seriously, we can do business. If you can't or won't, it's time for you to close the book and do something else. Wash the car, maybe.”
― Stephen King

“I am, as it were, the created creating—a paradox, for all its rhetorical trappings, at the beating heart of our shared human journey, and one I invite you to struggle with just as I have while, day in and day out, word by word and line by line, constructing a fictitious autobiography for myself in these pages.”
― Sol Luckman, Beginner's Luke

“Life is full of beautiful moments. Live your life to the fullest. And do what you
love.”
― Santonu Kumar Dhar, Life of Love

“I guess it’s true: it’s difficult for men to understand women.”
― Santonu Kumar Dhar, Life of Love

“Fiction is overrated, Fly. We’ve discussed this. In the time it takes those novelist fuckers to contemplate a few poetic passages, a thousand kids die from malnutrition. Immediacy, man, that’s what counts.”
― Rawi Hage, Carnival

“Film and novel characters are often stereotyped, but racial stereotyping in many novels or films creates & encourages labelling, discrimination & racism. ~Angelica Hopes”
― Angelica Hopes

“Try everything; listen to everyone. Follow no one. You are your own story guru!”
― Jeff Lyons, Anatomy of a Premise Line: How to Master Premise and Story Development for Writing Success

“With the right tools, you can write anything ...”
― Jeff Lyons, Anatomy of a Premise Line: How to Master Premise and Story Development for Writing Success

“So much of a novelist’s writing … takes place in the unconscious: in those depths the last word is written before the word appears on paper. We remember the details of our story, we do not invent them.”
― Graham Greene

“A deed done to others, but for yourself is not a worthy one at all. Instead, place another before you; in this way, you can be sure your moral compass always points North.”
― Jason W. Blair

“You write once and you can call yourself a writer, but it takes three novels before you can call yourself a novelist. The first two could have just been lucky. One day, I will finish my third, and one day, I will be a novelist.”
― Michael Kroft

“Novelist: A person who has more than a dozen novels in the works and thinks it would be novel to finish one.”
― Michael Kroft

“Read. Read as if your life depended on it because your life as a novelist does.”
― Louise Doughty

“While victors may get to write history, novelists get to write/right reality.”
― M.T. Bass

“Really there was no deadlier combination than bookworm and megalomaniac. It was, for example, the crazed condition of many novelists and travelers.”
― Paul Theroux, Dark Star Safari: Overland from Cairo to Cape Town