“If a novelist tells you something she knows or thinks, and you believe...” — A. S. Byatt Quote

“If a novelist tells you something she knows or thinks, and you believe her, that is not because either of you think she is God, but because she is doing her work - as a novelist.”

“I think my characters with my fingers, I think my characters with my guts. But when I say I think them, that is what I do, I feel them with the sympathetic neurons and I work out with my brain what it is that I am trying to write about, or I can't do it.”

“It's because I'm a feminist that I can't stand women limiting other women's imaginations. It really makes me angry.”

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

“I've been a novelist since 1995 and have had novels in and out of option, and watching that process just made me realize that I have to live by what I teach my students, because I teach screenwriting at Spellman.”

“I wanted to be a novelist for so long.”