#novelist

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You have to go out of your way as a suspense novelist to find situations where the protagonists are somewhat helpless and in real danger.


Nelson DeMille


#find #go #helpless #novelist #out

Things that appear on the front page of the newspaper as 'fact' are far more dangerous than the games played by a novelist, and can lead to wars.


E. L. Doctorow


#dangerous #fact #far #front #games

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


#dramatic #felt #free #long #next

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.


Graham Greene


#fiction #journalists #keep #more #more and more

If you are a novelist of a certain type of temperament, then what you really want to do is re-invent the world. God wasn't too bad a novelist, except he was a Realist.


John Barth


#certain #except #god #novelist #realist

With the marketing pressures driving the book world today, it's much easier to get the author of a memoir on a television show than a serious novelist.


David Halberstam


#book #driving #easier #get #marketing

I don't think any novelist should be concerned with literature.


Jacqueline Susann


#concerned #i #literature #novelist #should

One of the admirable features of British novelists is that they have no scruple about setting their stories in foreign settings with wholly foreign personnel.


James Buchan


#admirable #british #features #foreign #novelists

I think it's also the case that I'm not as widely travelled, or as well-educated in history, as most of the other novelists I meet: so I have to write about my own country, at the present time, because it's more or less all I know about!


Jonathan Coe


#also #because #case #country #history

A friend worth knowing tolerates your flaws while a friend worth keeping loves you in spite of them.


Kathy Reinhart


#novelist #writer #love