Inspirational Quotes and Sayings About Novelists

As a historical novelist, there are few jobs more retrospective.

Sara Sheridan

#Author #Historical #Jobs #Novelist

Edinburgh is a comfortable puddle for a novelist.

Sara Sheridan

#Author #Edinburgh #Location #Novelist

I realised early on that being an author is a hugely misunderstood job.

Sara Sheridan

#Author #Career #Job #Misunderstood

Our language is primarily for expressing human goodness and beauty.

Yasunari Kawabata

#Time #Perception #Novelists

The business of the novelist is not to relate great events, but to make small ones interesting.

Arthur Schopenhauer

#Literary theory #Writing craft

Grabbing readers by the imagination is a writer's job.

Sara Sheridan

#Authors #Grab #Imagination #Job

The snow on the distant mountains was soft and creamy, as if veiled in a faint smoke.

Yasunari Kawabata

#Time #Perception #Novelists

The world is a better place when you smile.

Nicholas Sparks

#Author #Book #Love #Nicholas sparks

A child walked by, rolling a metal hoop that made a sound of autumn.

Yasunari Kawabata

#Time #Perception #Novelists

For a novelist, the gaps in a story are as intriguing as material that still exists.

Sara Sheridan

#Author #Gaps #Intrigue #Novelist

Novelists are basically inviting their readers to play a game of pretend. That's what fiction is: a game of pretend.

Marty Rubin

#Fiction #Novelists #Novels #Pretense

The writing talent of Edinburgh is textured - we have poets, novelists, non-fiction writers, dramatists and more.

Sara Sheridan

#Drama #Edinburgh #Non fiction #Novelists

I'm a novelist by trade and my job is to write a story rather than reconstruct actual events.

Sara Sheridan

#Events #Fiction #Job #Methodological naturalism

I spend a lot of time imagining things - in fact, you could say that imagining things is my job.

Sara Sheridan

#Author #Imagination #Job #Novelist

To be motivated to write a novel, I need to be unable not to write.

Johnny Rich

#Motivation #Novel writing #Novelists #Novels

I'm a professional writer and I consider it part of my job to publicise my work and these days part of that job is done online.

Sara Sheridan

#Author #Internet #Job #Novelist

If you only write when inspired, you may be a fairly decent poet, but you'll never be a novelist.

Neil Gaiman

#Discipline #Inspiration #Inspirational #Novels

And I can't complain. After all, only women are able really to love.

Yasunari Kawabata

#Time #Perception #Novelists

I wonder what the retirement age is in the novel business. The day you die.

Yasunari Kawabata

#Time #Perception #Novelists