Woman Novelist Quotes

#1. I was going to be a great woman novelist. Then the war came along and I think it's hard for young people today, don't you, to realize that when World War II happened we were dying to go and help our country.

Julia Child

#2. I turned on Fox News and jumped when I saw that they had one of those things in their studio. "Are you people crazy?" I screamed at the television. "Get out of there. Somebody shoot it!" Then I realized I was watching Special Report and had mistaken Charles Krauthammer for a zombie.

Ian McClellan

#3. As a successful romantic novelist - one of my publishers is Mills & Boon - I create the sort of male heroes that no woman could fail to adore and few real men could hope to emulate.

P.C. Cast

#4. I'm a novelist, and I'm a woman, and I'm considered to be a serious author whether I like it or not.

Tawni O'Dell

#5. Say what you will about Queen Eleanor, she was a savvy, quick-witted woman who made her mark on history. And as the founder of the Courts of Love, what better patron monarch could there be for a romantic novelist?

Lauren Willig

#6. Revenge did that to a person; it caused even the insecure and the meek to take foolhardy chances. After a while it became a way of life; the risks felt as natural as drawing a breath.

Alice Hoffman

#7. Stop trying to be something you aren't and just let her love you.

Jay Crownover

#8. If you have a passion and love for something, it's hard to give it up. I had jobs where the people were helpful and let me go to auditions, and I'd make up the hours another day. I was lucky in that respect: I could afford to get to London.

Vicky McClure

#9. Feel exhilarated by the whole process .. high, happy, in tune.

Rhonda Byrne

#10. A woman filled with faith in the one she loves is the creation of a novelist's imagination.

Honore De Balzac

#11. In times of panic man seems to exchange his soul for a tail.

Gertrude Atherton

#12. The novelist is more like a pregnant woman who delivers her own child unaided. A messy procedure, with lots of groaning.

David Mitchell

#13. So stop sulking. You're not old enough for the cool, tortured look.

Tite Kubo

#14. Jane Austen was an extraordinary woman; to actually be able to survive as a novelist in those days - unmarried - was just unheard of.

Julie Walters

#15. I was asked the other day in which era I would choose to live. As a historical novelist, it comes up sometimes. As a woman I'd have to say I'd like to live in the future - I want to see where these centuries of change are leading us.

Sara Sheridan

#16. Sometimes an artist is lost and needs to find a new direction for himself or his music.

David Ruffin

#17. An en is a karmic bond lasting a lifetime. Nowadays many people seem to believe their lives are entirely a matter of choice; but in my day we viewed ourselves as pieces of clay that forever show the fingerprints of everyone who has touched them.

Arthur Golden

#18. NO MAN CAN AVOID BEING BORN AVERAGE, BUT NO MAN HAS TO STAY AVERAGE.

Satchel Paige

#19. it was Elner who gave me my first cat, after I had my breakdown, when I told her the doctor said I needed Prozac. She said, 'Tot, sometimes what you need is a kitten,' and you know, she was right.

Fannie Flagg

#20. Every time you go in, it's like starting over. You don't know how you did the other records. You're learning all over. It's some weird musician amnesia, or maybe the road wipes it out.

Beck

#21. Who are you to say whether she is of use? She is alive! That is statement enough.

Francine Rivers