Quotes About Expression

That seems to be the definition of 'novel' for me: a story that hasn't yet discovered a way to be brief.

Writing in a near-frenzy is wonderful and freeing but, for me, it does not result in a nice shiny novel. Instead what I have is a mess.

A certain luxury when you get to writing a novel is to have the space to have your characters just banter.

Nothing beats novel writing because it's complete expression of you. You just control everything. Not even a movie director has that level of control.

The great advantage of a novel is you can put in whatever comes into your head - it has the same shape as the human brain.

The job of the novelist is to invent: to embroider, to color, to embellish, to make things up.

I've always thought a novelist only has one character, and that is himself or herself. In my case, me.

You know, my mom, who inspired me to be a novelist, I remember her reading 'The Agony and the Ecstasy,' about Michelangelo, and saying, 'No mother would want that for her child, no matter how great the artist.' I have my share of demons, but I am a gregarious sort.

I've always liked the idea that writing is a form of travel. And I started my writing career as a mystery novelist for adults.

As a novelist, you have to be free. Books can't be an act of filial duty.

It's funny, because I don't think of myself as a novelist. I think of myself as a writer.

I'm always accused of being a crime novelist, but I'm not really.

I wrote a novel, so now they can call me a novelist. I tell stories; that's it.

I am a novelist through and through.

I get a lot of energy from making things up, which is why I feel I'm a novelist.

I wouldn't sit down and work at writing a song like a novelist or something.

I think if I was interested in writing on my own, I would be a novelist - then you could write about yourself, and that would be it. You wouldn't need anyone else.

I'm not a writer; I'm not a novelist.

Like all novelists, I'm interested in the filters between reality and the imagination.

It 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.

The novel is resilient, and so are novelists.

The novel is just fine: It's novelists who aren't doing so well.

Novelists are too often assumed to write veiled autobiography.

Novelists should be free to write whatever they want, to let their imaginations roam as close to or as removed from reality as they see fit.