I resist when someone calls me a novelist: it implies some kind of inherent superiority of the novel. I'm not a novelist, I'm a writer.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I don't really consider myself a novelist, it just came out purely by accident.
When you are a novelist, you are used to making a narrative do what you want.
Novelists seem to fall into two distinct categories - those that plan and those that just see where it takes them. I am very much the former category.
Well I'm not a novelist. I've only written one book and that is a memoir.
In effect I am not a novelist, but rather a failed essayist who started to write novels because he didn't know how to write essays.
A writer is what I am.
The novel, for me, was an accident. I really don't consider myself a novelist.
I am a better novelist than a poet, playwright, or essayist.
I don't call myself a writer.
I don't really consider myself a writer.