“For a novelist, a given historic situation is an anthropologic laboratory in which he explores his basic question: What is human existence?”
Milan Kundera
“I don't like to read novels where the novelist tells me what to think about the situation and the characters. I prefer to discover for myself.”
Frederick Wiseman
“A great entertainer, Furst would probably be considered our finest practicing historical novelist if he weren't writing espionage novels.”
Charles Taylor
“When you have an author of the caliber of Bernard Cornwell, one of the world's top historical novelist, it's very gratifying to publish him on a global basis giving him the prominence he deserves. We expect this important deal, in conjunction with the new TV mini-series, will bring him even greater success around the world.”
Jane Friedman
“The bicycle, the bicycle surely, should always be the vehicle of novelists and poets”
Christopher Morley
“There are many reasons why novelists write, but they all have one thing in common - a need to create an alternative world.”
John Fowles
“They can't yank a novelist like they can a pitcher. A novelist has to go the full nine, even if it kills him.”
Ernest Hemingway
