Novelists Quotes - Page 17
Where does any novelist pick up any character? For the most part, in town, to be sure.
Herman Melville (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Herman Melville (Illustrated)”, p.3049, Delphi Classics
The next time the novelist rings the bell I will not stir though the meeting-house burn down.
Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.66, Simon and Schuster
Henry James would have been vastly improved as a novelist by a few whiffs of the Chicago stockyard.
H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.500, Vintage
George Eliot (2016). “The Essays of George Eliot: Top Novelist Focus”, p.98, 谷月社