Novelist Identity Quotes

A novelist can’t be without a kimono and pen!(Shigure)

I'm not a biographer, I'm a novelist.

I'm a novelist, and I'm a woman, and I'm considered to be a serious author whether I like it or not.

I am not an academic who happens to have written a novel. I am a novelist who happens to be quite good academically.

My whole reputation and creative thought as a novelist is really wrapped around Harry Bosch, so he's near and dear.

I am a born novelist, which does not happen all that often. There are people who try to write for a certain time, then they become Ministers of Culture under de Gaulle, and they begin living their own fictions.

Although some people think I am a romantic novelist I have always thought of myself as a rather gritty radical historian.

Coming up with lectures is a huge amount of work. I was willing to do one lecture for Gresham because I was honored to have been invited, but to create lectures for a class would probably require that I shut down everything else and concentrate on lectures for a couple of years. Then there would be many, many other skills that I'd have to learn, such as how to sit through a faculty meeting, how to deal with students, etc. It is really not in the cards for me. It's not who I am or what I do. I'm a novelist.

I realized that my identity as a novelist was private. Only I knew how much of a novelist I was!