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“I didn’t intend to be a novelist. I didn’t intend to be anything. I thought I’d be a journalist.”
“I wanted to be a novelist for so long.”
“I’m a middle-class, middle-brow novelist. And that’s it. It amuses me.”
“I’m not a biographer, I’m a novelist.”
“The novelist’s intuition for the sacred differs from the translator’s interrogation of the sacred.”
“It is the job of the novelist to touch the reader.”
“I’m not a writer; I’m not a novelist.”
“I’m not really a mainstream novelist!”
“My whole life, I’ve wanted to be a novelist.”
“I thought I wanted to be a journalist or a novelist.”
“I am a novelist through and through.”
“Freud was just a novelist.”
“I am a fictionalizing philosopher, not a novelist.”
“My temperament is not geared to that of a novelist.”
“Novel-writing is, for the novelist, a game of let’s pretend.”
“I’m a novelist, not a social scientist or a commentator.”
“Uzodinma Iweala is a fine and confident novelist.”
