Novelist Perspective Quotes

For a novelist, a given historic situation is an anthropologic laboratory in which he explores his basic question: What is human existence?

I'm becoming more of a novelist as I get older. The novel just seems the truer form. There's less artifice involved.

As an historical novelist - there are few jobs more retrospective. I dumped science at an early age.

As a novelist, I have a somewhat higher soapbox to stand on than most people do when it comes to talking back to the merchants of fear.

I don't mind when people are telling me about their 1971 Firebird, but it's the same thing as people telling me about their car or something. It's fine if you have an interest. By talking with me, though, you could be interviewing a novelist about guitars. It's the same thing, except I don't write that well either.

As you know, I am a novelist, and I really want to write novels. But I knew enough about the Dreyfus case to understand immediately why what happened to Dreyfus was not merely a cause celebre from the end of the 19th century, but an event that could be shown to teach us lessons of the greatest importance for our own time.

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

As a novelist, I have always been interested in how people come to terms with difficult, life-altering events.

I do have a very strong sense that most of the terrible things in life happen suddenly and unpredictably, and certainly can sweep you off in different directions, and that is always of interest to a novelist.

As a novelist, I like the contained drama and complexity of the courtroom, though I don't watch those shows on TV. I prefer the hospital shows because I wanted to be a doctor.

I'm probably the only novelist who has ever written about political fugitives who actually knew a lot about them, had contact with them, and had a realistic notion of how they survived.

As a novelist, I tend to know significantly more about my characters than I do about my friends.