A petty reason perhaps why novelists more and more try to keep a distance from journalists is that novelists are trying to write the truth and journalists are trying to write fiction. Graham Greene
All novelists write in a different way, but I always write in longhand and then do two versions of typescript on a computer. Martin Amis
America may have great poets and novelists, but she never will have more than one necromancer. Rebecca Harding Davis
I was once a graduate student in Victorian literature, and I believe as the Victorian novelists did, that a novel isn't simply a vehicle for private expression, but that it also exists for social examination. I firmly believe this. Margaret Atwood
Novelists are stamina merchants, grinders, nine-to-fivers, and their career curves follow the usual arc of human endeavour. Martin Amis
Novelists don't age as quickly as philosophers, who often face professional senility in their late twenties. Martin Amis
Once upon a time, novelists of the 19th century, such as Charles Dickens, published in serial form. Margaret Atwood
Short-story writing requires an exquisite sense of balance. Novelists, frankly, can get away with more. A novel can have a dull spot or two, because the reader has made a different commitment. Lynn Abbey