“The bicycle, the bicycle surely, should always be the vehicle of novelists and poets”
Christopher Morley
“She was a wonderful poet, a good short-story writer and a fine novelist.”
Ray Bradbury
“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
“F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, and William Faulkner have fewer published novels combined than any number of contemporary novelists-Roberts, King, Koontz, Steel, etc.”
Nicholas Sparks
“The dominant and most deep-dyed trait of the journalist is his timorousness. Where the novelist fearlessly plunges into the water of self-exposure, the journalist stands trembling on the shore in his beach robe. The journalist confines himself to the clean, gentlemanly work of exposing the grieves and shames of others.”
Janet Malcolm
“Most contemporary novelists, especially the American and the French, are too subjective, mesmerized by private demons; they're enraptured by their navels and confined by a view that ends with their own toes.”
Truman Capote
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