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.
quote by John Barth
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Sigmund Freud was a novelist with a scientific background. He just didn't know he was a novelist. All those damn psychiatrists after him, they didn't know he was a novelist either.
quote by John Irving
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The novelist and the poet
the difference between
the poet and the novelist
the former invites you
straight into his world
a canvas that takes
words for paint
humour for techniques
realism for images
the novelist
on the other hand
flatters you with
his intelligence
but takes the liberty
to hide behind
each of his creation/character
hard it would be to
find the man in
the maze of his words
you would gain more
hunting for him in town
the novelist is a
calculative trader
seizing any idea that could
help him sell his words
the humble poet though has
to sniff out his real self, his own god-instilled rhythm,
to let us share his adventures, colours, dreams
the novelist craft words for money
the poet craft words - to find himself and shares it with those -
who wish to find their own selves
poem by John Tiong Chunghoo
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My temperament is not geared to that of a novelist.
quote by Philip Levine
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The job of the novelist is to invent: to embroider, to color, to embellish, to make things up.
quote by Donna Tartt
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School Boy Heart
[transcribed by chris w]
School boy heart
By: jimmy buffett & matt betton
1996
I got a school boy heart, a novelist eye
Stout sailors legs and a license to fly
I came with nomad feet and some wandering toes
That walk up my longboard and hang off the nose
I suppose
The need to focus never arose
So something like a swiss army knife
Thats my life
Frankenstein had nothing on this body of mine
The villagers still flockin to see, to see me
Breaking free, breaking free
Cause I got a school boy heart, a novelist eye
Stout sailors legs and a license to fly
I got a bartenders ear and beachcombers style
Piratical nerve and a vaudevillian style
I suspect I died in some cosmic shipwreck
With all hands spread all over the deck
What the heck
Then some kind of obscene and unscrupulous mind
Began to pick up what he could find
Added ice, shook me twice, rolled the dice
Now I got a school boy heart, a novelist eye
A sailors legs and a license to fly
I got a native tongue from way down south
It sits in the cheek of my gulf coastal mouth
I got a school boy heart, a novelist eye
Stout sailors legs and a license to fly
I came with nomad feet and some wandering toes
That glide up my longboard and hang off the nose
[in case theres any interest, right before banana wind, jimmy sez
Meetcha at the end meetcha at the end.]
song performed by by Jimmy Buffett
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For me, as a beginning novelist, all other living writers form a control group for whom the world is a placebo.
quote by Nicholson Baker
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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.
quote by David Halberstam
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The novel, for me, was an accident. I really don't consider myself a novelist.
quote by Wole Soyinka
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Historian: an unsuccessful novelist.
quote by H.L. Mencken
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So, how to stay inside the world of entertainment without actually getting another job? I felt the only logical answer was to become a novelist. So I wrote the first book - driven by some very real feelings of desperation - and it worked.
To be a novelist, all I need is a pen and a piece of paper.
quote by Quentin Tarantino
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It is the job of the novelist to touch the reader.
quote by Elizabeth George
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I don't think any novelist should be concerned with literature.
quote by Jacqueline Susann
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I don't really consider myself a novelist, it just came out purely by accident.
quote by Wole Soyinka
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I am a better novelist than a poet, playwright, or essayist.
quote by Jose Saramago
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Every novelist has a different purpose - and often several purposes which might even be contradictory.
quote by Irwin Shaw
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A novelist should not be too intelligent either, although... he may be permitted to be an intellectual.
quote by Anthony Burgess
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One more recent novelist to come along is Cormac McCarthy. Him, I like.
quote by Leslie Fiedler
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A filmmaker has almost the same freedom as a novelist has when he buys himself some paper.
quote by Stanley Kubrick
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The function of the novelist... is to comment upon life as he sees it.
quote by Frank Norris
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