“ I have a conscience about my work and try to turn out a good piece of craftsmanship. Catherine Gaskin
“ I think it's so important for a woman, if she's a writer, to look as feminine as possible. Catherine Gaskin
“ I never see a novel as a film while I'm writing it. Mostly because novels and films are so different, and I'm such an internal novelist Alice Hoffman Novelist
“ The novelist does not long to see the lion eat grass. He realizes that one and the same God created the wolf and the lamb, then smiled, “seeing that his work was good.” Andre Gide Author
“ A whim, a passing mood, readily induces the novelist to move hearth and home elsewhere. He can always plead work as an excuse to get him out of the clutches of bothersome hosts. C. S. Forester Novelist
“ A great novelist must open the reader's heart, allow the reader to remember the vastness and glory -- and shame and shabbiness -- of what it is to be human. Carolyn See Professor
“ Maybe someone's who's a different kind of writer [would think otherwise] - someone who'd be just as comfortable writing essays on what their novels are about. Sometimes you feel like certain novelists are like that. Chang-Rae Lee Novelist