Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Greenleaf Whittier

Leaning on Him, make with reverent meekness His own thy will.

Lisa Kleypas

Anyone who had ever read a novel knew that governesses were supposed to be meek and downtrodden.

Vera Brittain

Meek wifehood is no part of my profession; / I am your friend, but never your possession.

Carol Shields

This is why I read novels: so I can escape my own unrelenting monologue.

Charles Dickens

Novelties please less than they impress.

David Shields

My medium is prose, not the novel.

David Mitchell

For me, novels coalesce into being, rather than arrive fully formed.

David Mitchell

I'm a novelist, that's how I make my livelihood, and I concentrate on the novels.

David Quammen

I used to read only fiction. Now I don't read much, only occasionally, such as a Cormac McCarthy or a Jim Harrison novel.

Ellen Potter

I don't plot my novels - I move along with my characters.

John Irving

I find screenplays easy to write, my novels being very visual. You see what people look like. The physical action is described.

Jane Smiley

A novelist is on the cusp between someone who knows everything and someone who knows nothing.

Paloma Faith

I'm not a downtrodden woman. I just won't be.