I wanted to be a novelist for so long.
Alice Sebold
As a novelist, I ask of myself only that I tell the truth and that I tell it beautifully.
Taiye Selasi
I think that's the most important job of a novelist - to bring authority to their writing.
Maria Semple
I am happy that I'm a better novelist than a screenwriter.
Graeme Simsion
I don't think any novelist should be concerned with literature.
Jacqueline Susann
The job of the novelist is to invent: to embroider, to color, to embellish, to make things up.
Donna Tartt
I had thought of writing, actually, and that later on I'd be a novelist.
Francois Truffaut
I'm a middle-class, middle-brow novelist. And that's it. It amuses me.
Anita Brookner
A novelist should not be too intelligent either, although... he may be permitted to be an intellectual.
Anthony Burgess
I hated being a novelist when I was 20 - I had nothing to write about.
A. S. Byatt