Top Novelist Quotes
I never met anybody in my life who says, I want to be a critic. People want to be a fireman, poet, novelist.
Leslie Fiedler
Historian: an unsuccessful novelist.
H. L. Mencken
For me, as a beginning novelist, all other living writers form a control group for whom the world is a placebo.
Nicholson Baker
In effect I am not a novelist, but rather a failed essayist who started to write novels because he didn't know how to write essays.
Jose Saramago
For a novelist, a given historic situation is an anthropologic laboratory in which he explores his basic question: What is human existence?
Milan Kundera
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I never met anybody in my life who says, I want to be a critic. People want to be a fireman, poet, novelist.
Leslie Fiedler 
81% of people like this quote
For me, as a beginning novelist, all other living writers form a control group for whom the world is a placebo.
Nicholson Baker
63% of people like this quote
In effect I am not a novelist, but rather a failed essayist who started to write novels because he didn't know how to write essays.
Jose Saramago
59% of people like this quote
For a novelist, a given historic situation is an anthropologic laboratory in which he explores his basic question: What is human existence?
Milan Kundera
58% of people like this quote
With the marketing pressures driving the book world today, it's much easier to get the author of a memoir on a television show than a serious novelist.
David Halberstam
58% of people like this quote
There's a unique bond of trust between readers and authors that I don't believe exists in any other art form; as a reader, I trust a novelist to give me his or her best effort, however flawed.
Dan Simmons
58% of people like this quote
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