Damon Galgut Quotes

I do think novels are overlooked. I did write one some years ago that I think is quite good, called 'The End of the Story,' not to blow my own horn.

I wrote about four novels before I wrote a word of journalism.

I started out as a novelist and wrote several novels before deciding to publish one, and I fully intend to go back to the form.

The story and the characters of 'Girl Online' are mine.

I don't write tracts, I write novels. I'm not a preacher, I'm a fiction writer.

I have a really good idea for a novel and would like to just kind of try my hand at fiction. I'm starting to kind of get a really good body of work going from a literary standpoint. As long as the audience is there, man, I'll keep cranking them out.

I want a career writing these novels that I can be proud of. And then I want one as a screenwriter.

I'm a commercial writer, not an author. Margaret Mitchell was an author. She wrote one book.

I've been wanting to write a book about what goes into creating a novel, and the story behind 'A Passage to India' is especially interesting.

When I'm working on a novel of my own, I try to read mostly nonfiction, although sometimes I break down and peek at something else.

Many of my short stories (all unpublished) were horror, and the novel I'd just finished was horror, too.

Dickens belongs to the English people.

Novel writing should never be confused with journalism. Unfortunately, in the case of Primary Colors, a fair number of journalists confused.

A good novel is a good novel, pointe finale. And I think what I'm writing is exactly that.

The short story, it's not a step on the way to becoming a novelist.

Before trying a novel I wrote a couple of plays.

I am not a political thinker. I'm not even much of a thinker. I'm a hack novelist.

Oh you know, I've been writing a novel.

And you can tell the writers who do it - Robert Stone, for example, who with each new novel is doing something new. I appreciate that in other writers.

If I had simply wanted to trade on an insult to Islam, I could have done it in a sentence rather than writing a 250,000-word novel, a work of fiction.

I'm probably only going to make 10 movies, so I'm already planning on what I'm going to do after that. That's why I'm counting them. I have two more left. I want to stop at a certain point. What I want to do, basically, is I want to write novels, and I want to write theatre, and I want to direct theatre.

I have a novel out, 'Lupus Rex,' that I wrote and am excited about that.

I guess, when I left university, I liked the idea of being a writer, and I thought then that being a writer really meant that you were a novelist. But if one of the impulses for being a novelist is wanting to be a storyteller, I never had any urge to tell stories.

I'm using my degree. You know, I studied English and American literature in college, and now I'm an American poet.

I guess I've always been an aspiring novelist. I went to Princeton and wrote a novel for my thesis.