Anthony Powell was the most European of 20th-century British novelists.

Anthony Powell was the most European of 20th-century British novelists.

Novel-writing is, for the novelist, a game of let's pretend.

I'm a middle-class, middle-brow novelist. And that's it. It amuses me.

Novelists should be like scientists, dissecting the cadaver.

My temperament is not geared to that of a novelist.

I wanted to be a novelist for so long.

Uzodinma Iweala is a fine and confident novelist.

Novelists should be like scientists, dissecting the cadaver.

The novel is resilient, and so are novelists.

I'm not a biographer, I'm a novelist.

Freud was just a novelist.

I'm not a writer; I'm not a novelist.

I'm not really a mainstream novelist!