You don’t become a novelist to become a spinner of entertaining lies: you become a novelist so you can tell the truth.
– Hilary Mantel
Tag: novelist
Quotable 433
The true influence of a great novel is to say to a subsequent novelist, Go thou and do otherwise.
– Julian Barnes
Quotable 401
I think that being a novelist means you defend human values by writing novels.
– Alaa Al Aswany