Novelists Quotes

You can't put one of the world's best living novelists on trial and say this is just growing pains. - Denis MacShane

We are left with the career novelists. - Pauline Kael

We all now tell stories by cutting from one dramatic scene to the next, whereas Victorian novelists felt free to write long passages of undramatic summary. - Ken Follett

Things were easier for the old novelists who saw people all of a piece. Speaking generally, their heroes were good through and through, their villains wholly bad. - William Somerset Maugham

There are many reasons why novelists write, but they all have one thing in common - a need to create an alternative world. - John Fowles

The truth is that I know very few novelists who have been satisfied with the adaptation of their books for the screen. - Gabriel Garcia Marquez

The light that radiates from the great novels time can never dim, for human existence is perpetually being forgotten by man and thus the novelists discoveries, however old they may be, will never cease to astonish. - Milan Kundera

The few really great - the major novelists... are significant in terms of the human awareness they promote; awareness of the possibilities of life. - F. R. Leavis

The festival also shows that our novelists can be on par with other authors in the world. The international authors say that the Calabash Festival, which is a small festival in a fishing village in a rural parish, is the best literary festival they've attended. - Justine Henzell

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