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He did so many things. Not only was he a fine producer, but he was also turning out to be a phenomenal novelist as well as a highly considerable biographer.

Bill Hamilton

The suspense of a novel is not only in the reader, but in the novelist, who is intensely curious about what will happen to the hero.

Mary Mccarthy

Historian: an unsuccessful novelist.

H. L. Mencken

By measuring individual human worth, the novelist reveals the full enormity of the State's crime when it sets out to crush that individuality.

Ian Mcewan

Austen is a really beautiful writer when it comes to narrative and dialogue. Her writing is beautiful and elegant. As a novelist, she's one of the best.

Helen Thompson

I am a novelist.

Martin Amis

Among the many problems which beset the novelist, not the least weighty is the choice of the moment at which to begin his novel.

Vita Sackville west

I woke the next morning and became a novelist.

Gwen Davis

According to my sister, the expert novelist Jackie Collins, most men stray. And sex doesn't mean anything to most men. But I wouldn't date a man who slept around. Absolutely not. I've divorced people for that.

Joan Collins

Computer programming is to what they do as typing is to what a novelist does.

Bill Poucher

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

Frank Norris

In the long term, Bristol is not going to grow by having a novelist approach to their legal strategy.

Bob King

A filmmaker has almost the same freedom as a novelist has when he buys himself some paper.

Stanley Kubrick

Henry James would have been vastly improved as a novelist by a few whiffs of the Chicago stockyard.

H. L. Mencken

A detective digs around in the garbage of people's lives. A novelist invents people and then digs around in their garbage.

Joe Gores

It is the job of the novelist to touch the reader.

Elizabeth George