Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sarah Waters

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

Salman Rushdie

I'm a novelist. Fortunately I don't have to rule the world.

Wole Soyinka

I don't really consider myself a novelist, it just came out purely by accident.

Milan Kundera

For a novelist, a given historic situation is an anthropologic laboratory in which he explores his basic question: What is human existence?

Marcel Proust

Proust was the greatest novelist of the twentieth century, just as Tolstoy was in the nineteenth.

Jose Saramago

I am a better novelist than a poet, playwright, or essayist.

Khaled Hosseini

For a novelist, it's kind of an onerous burden to represent an entire culture.

Nelson DeMille

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

Philip Levine

My temperament is not geared to that of a novelist.

Tom Lehrer

I wasn't really a performer by temperament,

Hillary Clinton

It's just awfully good that someone with the temperament of Donald Trump is not in charge of the law in America.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

A writer's temperament is continually making him do things he can never repair.