#novelist

Well I'm not a novelist. I've only written one book and that is a memoir. ↗

— Carly Fiorina

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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

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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 never see a novel as a film while I'm writing it. Mostly because novels and films are so different, and I'm such an internal novelist. ↗

— Alice Hoffman

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

— Jacqueline Susann

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Yes, but also one of the problems for a novelist in Ireland is the fact that there are no formal manners. I mean some people have beautiful manners but there's no kind of agreed form of manners. ↗

— John McGahern

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Historian: an unsuccessful novelist. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

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Manners are of such great consequence to the novelist that any kind will do. Bad manners are better than no manners at all, and because we are losing our customary manners, we are probably overly conscious of them; this seems to be a condition that produces writers. ↗

— Flannery O'Connor

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A couple years ago, the novelist Russell Banks told me he was reading the ancient Greek historian Herodotus. I asked why. He said, 'Because I've always wanted to and am tired of having my reading assigned.' I thought it was a marvelous declaration of independence. ↗

— Richard Russo

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I am a better novelist than a poet, playwright, or essayist. ↗

— Jose Saramago

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