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• I’m a very good storyteller; I have a lot of compassion for people. That’s very useful for a novelist. A lot of novelists are snots. They’re just mean people. I’m not a terribly skilled stylist, nor do I want to be. I want a lot of people to read one of my stories and go, ‘That was pretty cool.’

  James Patterson

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• I am not much of a researcher as a novelist; I write mainly from experience.

  Mohsin Hamid

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• A novelist can’t be without a kimono and pen!(Shigure)

  Natsuki Takaya

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• I put it to you that there are no British poets, there are no British novelists. I have heard myself described as one, but I think really I’m an English novelist; there are Scottish poets and Scottish novelists.

  Ian McEwan

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• Novelists have always had complete freedom to pretty much tell their story any way they saw fit. And that’s what I’m trying to do.

  Quentin Tarantino

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• Personally, I have never wished I were a male novelist.

  Curtis Sittenfeld

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• Play not with paradoxes. That caustic which you handle in order to scorch others may happen to sear your own fingers and make them dead to the quality of things.

  George Eliot

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  The bicycle surely, should always be the vehicle of novelists and poets.

  Christopher Morley

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• Historians tell the story of the past, novelists the story of the present.

  Edmond de Goncourt

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

  Wole Soyinka

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• The novel, for me, was an accident. I really don’t consider myself a novelist.

  Wole Soyinka

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• It is the job of the novelist to touch the reader.

  Elizabeth George

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• Well, to be honest I think I’m a better short story writer than a novelist. Novels I find very hard, hours and hours, weeks and weeks, of conscious thought – whereas short stories slip out painlessly in a few days.

  Eric Brown

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• All novels are about crime. You’d be hard pressed to find any novel that does not have an element of crime. I don’t see myself as a crime novelist, but there are crimes in my books. That’s the nature of storytelling, if you want to reflect the real world.

  Carl Hiaasen

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• I wanted nothing less than to be a fiction writer when I was a kid. If you had told me I would be an artist or novelist when I grew up, I would have laughed in your face.

  Caleb Carr

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• For me, as a beginning novelist, all other living writers form a control group for whom the world is a placebo.

  Nicholson Baker

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• Let’s put it this way: if you are a novelist, I think you start out with a 20 word idea, and you work at it and you wind up with a 200,000 word novel. We, picture-book people, or at least I, start out with 200,000 words and I reduce it to 20.

  Eric Carle

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• Among the many problems which beset the novelist, not the least weighty is the choice of the moment at which to begin his novel.

  Vita Sackville-West

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• Short-story writing requires an exquisite sense of balance. Novelists, frankly, can get away with more. A novel can have a dull spot or two, because the reader has made a different commitment.

  Lynn Abbey

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• Novelists do not write as birds sing, by the push of nature. It is part of the job that there should be much routine and some daily stuff on the level of carpentry.

  William Golding

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