Whether he be an original or a plagiarist, man is the novelist of himself.
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“Man has no nature”Jose Ortega y Gasset
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Sigmund Freud was a novelist with a scientific background. He just didn’t know he was a novelist. All those damn psychiatrists after him, they didn’t know he was a novelist either.
John Irving
I'm a novelist, period. An American novelist.
Don DeLillo
The human mind can no more produce an original thought than a tree can bear an original fruit. As well might one cry for an original note in music as expect an original idea from a human brain.
One wishes our friends, the critics, would grasp this simple truth, and leave off clamoring for the impossible, and being shocked because they do not get it.Jerome K. Jerome
The journalist researches a story. The novelist imagines it.
What’s funny is, you’d be amazed at the amount of time a novelist has to spend with people in order to create this single lonely voice. This seemingly isolated world.
It’s hard to call any of my novels “fiction.”Chuck Palahniuk
He has become the most prolific as well as most gifted and versatile novelist of his generation. Not one member of it approaches his fluency, energy, inventiveness, effrontery....For sheer intelligence, learning, inventiveness, imaginative capacity, writer's professional cunning - no English novelist comes near him.
Anthony Burgess
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