Everyone assumes that novelists are smarter and more interesting. They`re generally smarter and more interesting, but they`re often very short. So it kind of cancels all the smart and interesting stuff out.
- Liev SchreiberNovelists have always had complete freedom to pretty much tell their story any way they saw fit. And that`s what I`m trying to do.
- Quentin TarantinoSan Francisco has long been a leader in the arts, nurturing generations of painters, sculptors, poets, novelists, playwrights, film-makers, and performing artists and innovators of every kind.
- Gavin NewsomIt seemed to me you could do anything in comics. So I started doing my thing, which is mainly influenced by novelists, stand-up comedians, that sort of thing.
- Harvey PekarThere are many reasons why novelists write, but they all have one thing in common - a need to create an alternative world.
- John FowlesMany novelists take well-defined, precise characters, whose stories are sometimes of mediocre interest, and place them in an important historical context, which remains secondary in spite of everything.
- Raymond QueneauI 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(Jane Smiley is renowned for the variety and originality of her work. Writing in the) Washington Post Book World ... one of the premier novelists of her generation, possessed of a mastery of craft and an uncompromising vision that grows more powerful with each book.
- Barry Baker