Novelist Quotes Quotes

“There is no friend as loyal as a book.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“How can the Book Award Judges’ decision be right when we know that submitting the same books to different panels will result in different winners!”
― Mouloud Benzadi

“A short story is a sprint, a novel is a marathon. Sprinters have seconds to get from here to there and then they are finished. Marathoners have to carefully pace themselves so that they don't run out of energy (or in the case of the novelist-- ideas) because they have so far to run. To mix the metaphor, writing a short story is like having a short intense affair, whereas writing a novel is like a long rich marriage.”
― Jonathan Carroll

“What some people call a nightmare, a writer calls a plot.”
― James Paddock

“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.”
― Richelle E. Goodrich

“Lie through your teeth and call it a novel. All will be well.”
― James Paddock

“Sometimes you can write about a character's day in under a minute and sometimes it takes a day just to write about a minute.”
― Jennifer v Clancy

“Passionate attraction to someone of the opposite sex will make a hero or a fool of a novelist each time.”
― Roman Payne, The Love of Europa: Limited Time Edition

“Writing - the act of one person giving a piece of their soul to another.”
― J. Spredemann

“Part of the desire to see each other succeed is to stop putting a price on success.”
― Crystal Evans, Jamaican Acute Ghetto Itis

“You are an author, a public figure. You are going to be judged no matter what you write, so live your life in a way that’s pleasing and congruent to your soul”
― Sarah Gerdes, Author Straight Talk

“Novelist by day; screenwriter by night.”
― A.D. Posey

“His head was always in the clouds. 'I'm writing a novel,' he told her. As if that was something to crow about. As if there weren't enough novels in the world already.”
― Kate Atkinson, Shrines of Gaiety

“Men and women don't think and feel the same way. I have seen and experienced enough of life to come to this conclusion. I am not making assumptions here. I have a myriad of instances that I can put forth as my evidences for this thought. But it's not what you think you know about women that can be classified as correct. They are authentic, but not like us the men, who are direct and straight forward. Women feel everything deeply but express subtly.”
― Avijeet Das

“Wisdom is able to change human perception and make dreams come true!”
― Izzatin Yasin, Telapak Iblis