Definition of Novelist

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Definition of Novelist
	Novelist An innovator; an asserter of novelty. A writer of news. A writer of a novel or novels. Related Definitions: An, Asserter, Innovator, News, Novel, Novelty, Of, Or, Writer

Novelist Quotations

Historian: an unsuccessful novelist.
H. L. Mencken

To be a novelist, all I need is a pen and a piece of paper.
Quentin Tarantino

Manners are of such great consequence to the novelist that any kind will do. Bad manners are better than no manners at all, and because we are losing our customary manners, we are probably overly conscious of them; this seems to be a condition that produces writers.
Flannery O'Connor

No poet or novelist wishes he were the only one who ever lived, but most of them wish they were the only one alive, and quite a number fondly believe their wish has been granted.
W. H. Auden

If a person is not talented enough to be a novelist, not smart enough to be a lawyer, and his hands are too shaky to perform operations, he becomes a journalist.
Norman Mailer

Happy is the novelist who manages to preserve an actual love letter that he received when he was young within a work of fiction, embedded in it like a clean bullet in flabby flesh and quite secure there, among spurious lives.
Vladimir Nabokov

A novelist is, like all mortals, more fully at home on the surface of the present than in the ooze of the past.
Vladimir Nabokov

It's like a novelist writing far out things. If it makes a point and makes sense, then people like to read that. But if it's off in left field and goes over the edge, you lose it. The same with musical talent, I think.
Johnny Cash

A filmmaker has almost the same freedom as a novelist has when he buys himself some paper.
Stanley Kubrick

The economy of a novelist is a little like that of a careful housewife who is unwilling to throw away anything that might perhaps serve its turn.
Graham Greene

Novelist Translations

novelist in Dutch is romanschrijver
novelist in German is Romanschriftsteller
novelist in Spanish is novelista

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