Novelist Quotes
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![Roman Payne](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1508982929i/359352._UY200_CR33,0,200,200_.jpg)
“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.”
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![Richelle E. Goodrich](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1714753927i/5082833._UX200_CR0,0,200,200_.jpg)
“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.”
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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.”
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![Santonu Kumar Dhar](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1703846411i/5165576._UX200_CR0,0,200,200_.jpg)
“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?”
― Life of Love
believe you love me as much, so why are you avoiding me?”
― Life of Love
![P. Anastasia](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1418661524i/10802500._UY200_CR22,0,200,200_.jpg)
“Sometimes I don't even know why I'm writing what I'm writing...
I'm just following these people around and taking notes.”
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I'm just following these people around and taking notes.”
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![Santonu Kumar Dhar](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1703846411i/5165576._UX200_CR0,0,200,200_.jpg)
“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.”
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memories together. The night seems to stretch on forever.”
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![Roman Payne](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1508982929i/359352._UY200_CR33,0,200,200_.jpg)
“Passionate attraction to someone of the opposite sex will make a hero or a fool of a novelist each time.”
― The Love of Europa: Limited Time Edition
― The Love of Europa: Limited Time Edition
![Dorothy L. Sayers](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1519840173i/8734._UX200_CR0,38,200,200_.jpg)
“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.”
― Gaudy Night
― Gaudy Night
![Angela Carter](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1397683766i/27500._CR50,0,200,200_.jpg)
“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.”
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![Sol Luckman](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1688318824i/439509._UX200_CR0,24,200,200_.jpg)
“The Adventure called and I followed with my thumb like a character being written by an intractable author. Which, of course, I was.”
― Beginner's Luke
― Beginner's Luke
![Santonu Kumar Dhar](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1703846411i/5165576._UX200_CR0,0,200,200_.jpg)
“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.”
― Life of Love
― Life of Love
![Santonu Kumar Dhar](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1703846411i/5165576._UX200_CR0,0,200,200_.jpg)
“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...”
― Life of Love
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...”
― Life of Love
![Will Self](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1436638852i/13794._UX200_CR0,37,200,200_.jpg)
“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.”
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![Stephen King](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1362814142i/3389._UX200_CR0,50,200,200_.jpg)
“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.”
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![Sol Luckman](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1688318824i/439509._UX200_CR0,24,200,200_.jpg)
“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.”
― Beginner's Luke
― Beginner's Luke
![Santonu Kumar Dhar](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1703846411i/5165576._UX200_CR0,0,200,200_.jpg)
“Life is full of beautiful moments. Live your life to the fullest. And do what you
love.”
― Life of Love
love.”
― Life of Love
![Rawi Hage](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1205859580i/185233._UY200_CR31,0,200,200_.jpg)
“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.”
― Carnival
― Carnival
![Angelica Hopes](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1379263991i/4491745._UY200_CR49,0,200,200_.jpg)
“Film and novel characters are often stereotyped, but racial stereotyping in many novels or films creates & encourages labelling, discrimination & racism. ~Angelica Hopes”
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![Jeff Lyons](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1432179381i/3090627._UX200_CR0,7,200,200_.jpg)
“Try everything; listen to everyone. Follow no one. You are your own story guru!”
― Anatomy of a Premise Line: How to Master Premise and Story Development for Writing Success
― Anatomy of a Premise Line: How to Master Premise and Story Development for Writing Success
![Jeff Lyons](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1432179381i/3090627._UX200_CR0,7,200,200_.jpg)
“With the right tools, you can write anything ...”
― Anatomy of a Premise Line: How to Master Premise and Story Development for Writing Success
― Anatomy of a Premise Line: How to Master Premise and Story Development for Writing Success
![Graham Greene](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1254688603i/2533._UX200_CR0,31,200,200_.jpg)
“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.”
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![Jason W. Blair](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1498123672i/6899591.jpg)
“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.”
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![Michael Kroft](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1617350363i/8293074._UY200_CR33,0,200,200_.jpg)
“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.”
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![Michael Kroft](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1617350363i/8293074._UY200_CR33,0,200,200_.jpg)
“Novelist: A person who has more than a dozen novels in the works and thinks it would be novel to finish one.”
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![Paul Theroux](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1206717783i/9599._UX200_CR0,24,200,200_.jpg)
“Really there was no deadlier combination than bookworm and megalomaniac. It was, for example, the crazed condition of many novelists and travelers.”
― Dark Star Safari: Overland from Cairo to Cape Town
― Dark Star Safari: Overland from Cairo to Cape Town
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