Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bonnie Jo Campbell

Eighty percent of all novels are bought by women, or so I've heard.

Michel Faber

All my novels are about people who strive to heal and evolve.

Amos Oz

Almost without exception, my novels are rooted in Israel because that's the place I know well.

Tom Perrotta

The lesson you have to learn as novelist is how to be collaborative, and how to say, "I don't get to dictate this."

Philip Larkin

If you tell a novelist, 'Life's not like that', he has to do something about it. The poet simply replies, 'No, but I am.'

Frank Norris

The function of the novelist... is to comment upon life as he sees it.

Jessica Savitch

Being a novelty had its advantages.

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.

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'.

Thomas Chandler Haliburton

I have learnt a good deal from my own talk.

Giacomo Casanova

I loved, I was loved, my health was good, I had a great deal of money, and I spent it, I was happy and I confessed it to myself.

Ziggy Marley

The truth - you've got to deal with it or it will kill you bit by bit.

John Barth

really not out of line with other deals that have been done in this industry, but this will stand on its own merits.

If life deals you lemons, why not go kill someone with the lemons (maybe by shoving them down his throat).

Jerry Angelo

There will be a few teams that'll come out (fast). I know I've heard of some things going on right now. So there will be some pretty big deals that will come out like in normal years.

Robert A. Heinlein

When railroading time comes you can railroad—but not before.

Harry Wilson

Taxes don't seem to be the third rail they used to be.