Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nelson DeMille

Lawrence Kelter is an exciting new novelist, who reminds me of an early Robert Ludlum.

Peter Ackroyd

Freud was just a novelist.

Leslie Fiedler

One more recent novelist to come along is Cormac McCarthy. Him, I like.

Rachel Cusk

I'm a novelist, not a social scientist or a commentator.

Juliet Marillier

As a novelist, I'm endlessly fascinated by human behavior and interactions.

Jonathan Kellerman

I would never have been a novelist without working as a psychologist...it was a great education in human nature.

Hilary Mantel

I only became a novelist because I thought I had missed my chance to become a historian.

John Banville

The novel is resilient, and so are novelists.

John Banville

Dostoevsky is such a bad writer it is hard to take him seriously as a novelist, though he is a wonderful philosopher.

Leon Panetta

The Taliban is resilient.

Gabrielle Union

You have to be resilient.

Ed Pepple

They've been resilient all year. We were written off, and (we) always come back.

Bill Cowher

We've got a young quarterback who doesn't play young. It's a very resilient group, very focused.

Deepak Chopra

Free yourself emotionally - to be emotionally resilient is the best defense against growing rigid.

Kris Benson

We are a resilient team. You've got to work through those things and come out ahead.

Chad Wintz

We've got a little moxie to us. I know we've been awfully resilient in a lot of different instances this year.

Sophie Kinsella

There’s no such thing as ruining your life. Life’s a pretty resilient thing, it turns out.

Jeff Bezos

Focusing on the customer makes a company more resilient.

Sarah Pinborough

I wrote my first five horror novels while I was teaching.

Edmund White

I didn't get anything published until I was thirty-three, and yet I'd written five novels and six or seven plays. The plays, I should point out, were dreadful.

William Golding

However you disguise novels, they are always biographies.

Wendell Berry

There is change by necessity or adaptation, and there is contrived change or novelty.

Brian Moore

Research is usually a policeman stopping a novel from progressing.

Jojo Moyes

Rejection is part of the process, so you can't let it crush you. My first three novels never made it into publication, but my fourth, 'Sheltering Rain,' was translated into 11 languages.

Rudolfo Anaya

In many respects, I think 'Bless Me, Ultima' is a novel about the indigenous.

Sarah Waters

I knew I'd always be a second-rate academic, and I thought, 'Well, I'd rather be a second-rate novelist or even a third-rate one'.

John Gordon Sinclair

I'm a big fan of Elmore Leonard, and I've read Ian Rankin, Christopher Brookmyre and so on. But I'd never read a crime novel that made me feel emotional at the end.