Gabriel Garcia Marquez

I don't know who said that novelists read the novels of others only to figure out how they are written. I believe it's true. We aren't satisfied with the secrets exposed on the surface of the page: we turn the book around to find the seams.

Colombian Novelist

Julia Child

I was going to be a great woman novelist. Then the war came along and I think it's hard for young people today, don't you, to realize that when World War II happened we were dying to go and help our country.

American Chef

Graham Greene

A petty reason perhaps why novelists more and more try to keep a distance from journalists is that novelists are trying to write the truth and journalists are trying to write fiction.

British Novelist

Zal Batmanglij

Actors love to do extreme things, so that is why they become actors; otherwise, they'd be novelists.

American Director

Frank Norris

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

American Novelist

John Updike

A Christian novelist tries to describe the world as it is.

Kazuo Ishiguro

I like novelists who can create other interesting worlds.

Japanese Author

Stan Brakhage

Novelists and poets have existed side by side forever.

Jared Kushner

Every 'Observer' writer wants to be a novelist.

American Businessman

Jane Fallon

My whole life, I've wanted to be a novelist.

English Author

Novelists often capture and influence the culture and society in which they write.

Cultural Impact

Novelists can specialize in various genres, like romance, science fiction, or mystery.

Genre Variety

Remember, not all writers are novelists; 'novelist' specifically refers to those who write novels.

Not All Writers

Novelists create entire worlds and characters from imagination, distinguishing them from non-fiction writers.

Imaginative Creation

Novels are generally long-form stories. Novelists must be skilled in developing complex plots and characters.

Long-form Storytelling

Each novelist has a unique voice and perspective, which is often reflected in their writing style.

Individual Vision

 When it comes to words, bigger isn't always better. Ten-dollar words are rendered worthless if they're not understood. That's not to say every piece of literature should be written at a fourth-grade reading level, but it is important to know your audience. If you're a novelist, your audience is probably expecting

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 Synesthesia runs in families, so Galton said this is a hereditary basis, a genetic basis. Secondly, synesthesia is about -- and this is what gets me to my point about the main theme of this lecture, which is about creativity -- synesthesia is eight times more common among artists, poets, novelists

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 The self as we once knew it no longer exists, and I think that an abstract, digital universe has become a part of our identity, and I want to talk to you about what I think that means. I'm a novelist, and I'm interested in the self because the self and fiction have a lot in common.

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 much more than the other looked at from this angle there's becomes a story about reading the novelist glad ran a book off said that the best reader has a combination of two very different temperaments the artistic and the scientific a good reader has an artist's passion a

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 And this is of course a completely irresistible metaphor to a novelist, because we would all like to believe that the stuff that we write down on paper can change the actual world in which we're actually living, which is why my third book is called "Paper Towns".

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 to see how it goes. This new model also helps with the media industry’s notorious problem with diversity. Anyone can be a writer in a web story platform, from a fresh grad cartoonist to a housewife, to who, you know, who dreamed of being a novelist one day.

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 She wrote, "When one reads of a witch being ducked, of a woman possessed by devils, of a wise woman selling herbs, or even a very remarkable man who had a mother, then I think we're on the track of a lost novelist, a suppressed poet,

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 I so passionate about the creative economy well in all my experience as a copywriter a novelist a playwright a poet a filmmaker a festival director and the teacher I have come to realize that the creative economy is one of the key

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 influenced me quite a bit I think it's opened up my writing quite a bit it gave me the confidence to try to write a novel which I had never quite had the nerve to do because I was so intimidated by the great southern novelist but

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 in our midst? It's not our pity that they need. It's our respect. I know famous musicians, I know actors and film stars and millionaires and novelists

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