Quotes Tagged With :novelist

After finishing 1st draft of a novel, I have the characters, dialogue, scenes, and a plotline. I used....

There is no revelation in my words. I am merely stating what others have forgotten to write down.

I am, as it were, the created creating—a paradox, for all its rhetorical trappings, at the beating....

You write once and you can call yourself a writer, but it takes three novels before you can call yourself....

Not writing is never an option. This is not words of advice. It's just literally never an option!

The novel should tell the truth, as I see the truth, or as the novelist persuades me to see it. And one....

The writing talent of Edinburgh is textured - we have poets, novelists, non-fiction writers, dramatists....

Fiction is overrated, Fly. We’ve discussed this. In the time it takes those novelist fuckers to contemplate....

I was forced to wander, having no one, forced by my nature to keep wandering because wandering was the....

As a novelist it is my job to tell stories that inspire and entertain but I am increasingly mindful that....