Quotes from 448 people with novelist as their profession

• About, Edmond
• Abrahams, Peter
• Agee, James
• Alcott, Louisa
• Algren, Nelson
• Allende, Isabel
• Allston, Aaron
• Amicis, Edmondo
• Amis, Kingsley
• Anderson, Sophie
• Apollinaire, Guillaume
• Appelfeld, Aharon
• Asch, Sholem
• Atwood, Margaret
• Auchincloss, Louis
• Austen, Jane
• Bach, Richard
• Bailey, Paul
• Bainbridge, Beryl
• Baker, Nicholson
• Baldwin, Faith
• Balzac, Honore
• Barbusse, Henri
• Barnes, Djuna
• Barr, Amelia
• Barrie, J.
• Barth, John
• Bastos, Augusto
• Baum, Vicki
• Bellow, Saul
• Benn, Gottfried
• Bennett, Arnold
• Berger, Thomas
• Bernieres, Louis
• Biggers, Earl
• Binchy, Maeve
• Blessington, Countess
• Bolano, Roberto
• Bottome, Phyllis
• Bowen, Elizabeth
• Bradbury, Malcolm
• Bradford, Barbara
• Braine, John
• Brien, Alan
• Bronte, Anne
• Bronte, Charlotte
• Bronte, Emily
• Brooke, Henry
• Brophy, Brigid
• Brown, Dee
• Buchan, James
• Buck, Pearl
• Burgess, Anthony
• Burney, Fanny
• Cabell, James
• Cable, George
• Cain, James
• Capote, Truman
• Carey, Peter
• Carpentier, Alejo
• Carr, Caleb
• Carter, Angela
• Cartland, Barbara
• Cary, Joyce
• Castillo, Ana
• Celio, Brian
• Cervantes, Miguel
• Chang, Sophia
• Chen, Sophia
• Cherbuliez, Victor
• Chesnutt, Charles
• Clancy, Tom
• Clapier, Luc
• Claus, Hugo
• Clavell, James
• Coe, Jonathan
• Coelho, Paulo
• Coleridge, Mary
• Colette, Sidonie
• Collins, Wilkie
• Compton-Burnett, Ivy
• Conrad, Joseph
• Cooper, James
• Corelli, Marie
• Cornwell, Bernard
• Cozzens, James
• Crews, Harry
• Dahl, Roald
• Dahlberg, Edward
• Danforth, Ariel
• Daudet, Alphonse
• Davies, Robertson
• Davies, Sophia
• Davis, Lindsey
• Deland, Margaret
• DeLillo, Don
• Desai, Anita
• Dexter, Colin
• Dickens, Charles
• Dickey, James
• Doblin, Alfred
• Dooling, Richard
• Dorfman, Ariel
• Dostoevsky, Fyodor
• Doyle, Roddy
• Drabble, Margaret
• Dreiser, Theodore
• Duhamel, Georges
• Dumas, Alexander
• Dundy, Elaine
• Dunn, Katherine
• Dunnett, Dorothy
• Dunsany, Lord
• Duras, Marguerite
• Ebner-Eschenbach, Marie
• Eco, Umberto
• Edgeworth, Maria
• Eliot, George
• Ellison, Ralph
• Emecheta, Buchi
• Ertz, Susan
• Eugenides, Jeffrey
• Evans, Gabrielle
• Farrell, James
• Faulkner, William
• Ferber, Edna
• Feuchtwanger, Lion
• Field, Rachel
• Fielding, Henry
• Findley, Timothy
• Firbank, Ronald
• Flaubert, Gustave
• Forester, C.
• Forster, E.
• Foster, Emily
• Fowles, John
• Fox, Samantha
• Frame, Janet
• France, Anatole
• Franzen, Jonathan
• Friedman, Bruce
• Frisch, Max
• Fuentes, Carlos
• Gaddis, William
• Garcia, Maya
• Gardner, John
• Garland, Hamlin
• Garner, Helen
• Gary, Romain
• Gaskell, Elizabeth
• Gass, William
• Gide, Andre
• Gilbert, Elizabeth
• Gilman, Dorothy
• Girardin, Delphine
• Gissing, George
• Glasgow, Ellen
• Godden, Rumer
• Godwin, Gail
• Golding, William
• Goldman, Clara
• Goldman, William
• Goldsmith, Oliver
• Gombrowicz, Witold
• Goncharov, Ivan
• Gordimer, Nadine
• Gorky, Maxim
• Gotlieb, Phyllis
• Gourmont, Remy
• Grafton, Sue
• Graham, Winston
• Grahame, Kenneth
• Graves, Robert
• Green, John
• Green, Julien
• Greene, Samantha
• Guest, Judith
• Haddon, Mark
• Hailey, Arthur
• Haley, Alex
• Handke, Peter
• Hannah, Barry
• Hardy, Thomas
• Hawkes, John
• Hawthorne, Nathaniel
• Hayes, Scarlett
• Haywood, Eliza
• Hazzard, Shirley
• Heller, Joseph
• Helprin, Mark
• Hemingway, Ernest
• Henderson, Sophia
• Herbert, Alan
• Hernandez, Sofia
• Herzog, Arthur
• Hesse, Hermann
• Heyer, Georgette
• Higgins, George
• Highsmith, Patricia
• Hilton, James
• Hoban, Russell
• Hofmannsthal, Hugo
• Holland, J.
• Holt, Tom
• Holtby, Winifred
• Huxley, Aldous
• Infante, Guillermo
• Invictus, Amelia
• Irving, John
• Irwin, William
• Jackson, Gabrielle
• Jackson, Shirley
• Jaffe, Rona
• James, P.
• Jameson, Clio
• Jansson, Tove
• Jenkins, Jerry
• Jinping, Mara
• Johnson, Diane
• Johnson, Lily
• Johnson, Maya
• Johnston, Mary
• Jones, Shannon
• Jong, Erica
• Joyce, James
• Kafka, Franz
• Kawabata, Yasunari
• Keneally, Thomas
• Kerouac, Jack
• Kingsley, Jenna
• Kingsolver, Barbara
• Kirkland, Joseph
• Knowles, John
• Koestler, Arthur
• Konrad, George
• Korda, Michael
• Kosinski, Jerzy
• Krantz, Judith
• L'Engle, Madeleine
• Lamming, George
• Leavitt, David
• Lee, Harper
• Lee, Sophia
• Levin, Ira
• Levin, Meyer
• Lewis, Sinclair
• Linwood, Mia
• London, Jack
• Lovecraft, H.
• Ludlum, Robert
• Lurie, Alison
• Lynn, Aurora
• Macaulay, Rose
• MacDonald, George
• MacDonald, John
• MacDonald, Ross
• Maclean, Alistair
• MacLean, Sarah
• Mahfouz, Naguib
• Mailer, Norman
• Mainwaring, Daniel
• Malamud, Bernard
• Mann, Heinrich
• Marquand, John
• Marquez, Gabriel
• Marryat, Frederick
• Maupin, Armistead
• Mauriac, Francois
• Maurier, Daphne
• Maxwell, William
• Mayfield, Sophia
• McCullers, Carson
• McCutcheon, George
• Melville, Herman
• Meredith, George
• Metalious, Grace
• Michener, James
• Mira, Ana
• Mitchell, Margaret
• Moody, Rick
• Moore, Brian
• Moore, George
• Moravia, Alberto
• Morgan, Ava
• Morgan, Charles
• Morrison, Toni
• Mortimer, John
• Mosley, Nicholas
• Mosley, Walter
• Mulock, Dinah
• Munro, Hector
• Nabokov, Vladimir
• Naipaul, V.
• Naylor, Gloria
• Nerval, Gerard
• Norris, Frank
• Norton, Caroline
• O'Brien, Edna
• O'Brien, Kate
• Oates, Joyce
• Oliphant, Margaret
• Olsen, Tillie
• Orczy, Baroness
• Ouida, Ouida
• Ozick, Cynthia
• Painter, Lila
• Palahniuk, Chuck
• Pamuk, Orhan
• Park, Mira
• Parker, Amelia
• Passos, John
• Pasternak, Boris
• Patel, Sophia
• Paton, Alan
• Payn, James
• Perry, Anne
• Phillpotts, Eden
• Pierce, Sofia
• Poole, Ernest
• Porter, Eleanor
• Porter, Jane
• Powell, Anthony
• Powers, Gabrielle
• Powers, J.
• Powers, Richard
• Price, Reynolds
• Proust, Marcel
• Puzo, Mario
• Pym, Barbara
• Raven, Simon
• Reade, Charles
• Renault, Mary
• Rhys, Jean
• Rice, Anne
• Richardson, Samuel
• Richler, Mordecai
• Rinehart, Mary
• Roberts, Nora
• Rodriguez, Sophia
• Rolland, Romain
• Rossner, Judith
• Rosten, Leo
• Roth, Philip
• Rowan, Lily
• Roy, Arundhati
• Rulfo, Juan
• Rushdie, Salman
• Russo, Richard
• Sabatini, Rafael
• Sackville-West, Vita
• Sade, Marquis
• Saint-Exupery, Antoine
• Salinger, J.
• Sand, George
• Schulz, Bruno
• Scott, Paul
• Scott, Walter
• Segal, Erich
• Shaw, Irwin
• Sheed, Wilfrid
• Sheldon, Sidney
• Shikibu, Murasaki
• Sienkiewicz, Henryk
• Simms, William
• Singer, Isaac
• Siodmak, Curt
• Smith, Betty
• Smith, Elizabeth
• Smith, Lillian
• Smith, Russell
• Smith, Samantha
• Solzehnitsyn, Alexander
• Spark, Muriel
• Sparks, Nicholas
• Steel, Danielle
• Stegner, Wallace
• Sterne, Laurence
• Stewart, Mary
• Stone, Aurora
• Stone, Juliana
• Stone, Robert
• Storey, David
• Styron, William
• Sue, Eugene
• Surtees, Robert
• Suttner, Bertha
• Tan, Amy
• Tarkington, Booth
• Tartt, Donna
• Thackeray, William
• Theroux, Paul
• Thomas, Will
• Thompson, Julia
• Tolkien, J.
• Tolstoy, Leo
• Townsend, Sue
• Tremain, Rose
• Trent, Emma
• Treven, Jake
• Trollope, Joanna
• Truman, Margaret
• Trumbo, Dalton
• Turgenev, Ivan
• Turner, Harper
• Turow, Scott
• Tyler, Anne
• Undset, Sigrid
• Updike, John
• Vidal, Gore
• Vries, Peter
• Wager, Walter
• Wagner, Jennifer
• Walker, Alice
• Warren, Robert
• Waters, Samantha
• Waugh, Alec
• Webb, Mary
• Weldon, Fay
• Welsh, Irvine
• Wesley, Mary
• Westridge, Serena
• Westwood, Elijah
• White, Edmund
• White, Samantha
• Wiesel, Elie
• Wilder, Thornton
• Williams, Maya
• Williams, Raymond
• Williams, Sarah
• Williams, Sophia
• Wilson, Angus
• Wilson, Sloan
• Winterson, Jeanette
• Wolfe, Thomas
• Wood, Ellen
• Woodhouse, Emma
• Wouk, Herman
• Wright, Richard
• Xingjian, Gao
• Yates, Dornford
• Yehoshua, A.
• Yezierska, Anzia
• Yonge, Charlotte
• Young, Sophia
• Yourcenar, Marguerite
• Zamyatin, Yevgeny
• Zangwill, Israel
• Zola, Emile