## Metadata - Author: [[Haruki Murakami, Philip Gabriel, and Ted Goossen]] - Full Title: Novelist as a Vocation - Category: #books ## Highlights - These essays, though, do not reflect those changes, or the individual changes I’ve experienced myself. They are simply my thoughts and feelings as of 2015. ([Location 61](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B09S37T6TM&location=61)) - The way I see it, people with brilliant minds are not particularly well suited to writing novels. ([Location 216](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B09S37T6TM&location=216)) - In my considered opinion, anyone with a quick mind or an inordinately rich store of knowledge is unlikely to become a novelist. That is because the writing of a novel, or the telling of a story, is an activity that takes place at a slow pace—in low gear, so to speak. ([Location 219](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B09S37T6TM&location=219)) - A tenacious, persevering temperament that equips them to work long and lonely hours. It is my belief that these are the qualifications required of a professional novelist. ([Location 296](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B09S37T6TM&location=296))