You never learn how to write a novel. You just learn how to write the novel that you're writing. — Gene Wolfe Copy Share Image
“Take care of your costume and your confidence will take care of itself.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
“An entrepreneur with strong network makes money even when he is asleep.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
“Some stories always remain incomplete, until you do not read them complete with heart <3” — Danish Ahmad Afsar Ali Copy Share Image
Not getting bored of my own story and/or character is one of the main struggles I have had with novel writing, and… — Aimee Bender Copy Share Image
“Writing is wretched, discouraging, physically unhealthy, infinitely frustrating work. And when it all comes together it’s utterly glorious." National Novel Writing Month… — Ralph Peters Copy Share Image
I think it took me half a page of 'Wolf Hall' to think: 'This is the novel I should have been writing… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
The recent extraordinary discovery in Photography, as applied in the operations of the mind, has reduced the art of novel-writing to the… — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
Novel writing is the slowest art form in the world. It is not a sprint. It is not even a marathon. It… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
“Good becomes better by playing against better, but better doesn't become the best by playing against good.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
The speed of the TV stuff vs. the self-imposed pace of novel writing has been a big adjustment, and going back and… — Megan Abbott Copy Share Image
“War is not just the shower of bullets and bombs from both sides, it is also the shower of blood and bones… — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
For me, novel-writing, by its nature, contains months of feeling lost, gloomy, fatally misguided. The challenge has always been in assuring myself… — Ben Dolnick Copy Share Image
If I'm writing a novel, I'll probably get up in the morning, do email, perhaps blog, deal with emergencies, and then be… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“True writers know that writing is not something they feel required to do, or to make a living they must do, it… — Milissa R. Bailey Copy Share Image
If you're a playwright, unless you're really lacking in get-up-and-go, you can always get your play up somewhere. You can't necessarily make… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
I don't think I knew that you could be a novelist. I think a lot of my students are in the same… — Rachel Cusk Copy Share Image
“Maybe you didn’t need to know anything special to write a work of fiction. Maybe you didn’t need to delve into some… — L.L. Barkat Copy Share Image
In a way, novel writing is such a permanently student lifestyle. When it comes to movies, and you have to go to… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
“Theoretically there's no reason one should get [writer's block], if one understands that writing, after all, is only writing, neither something one… — John Gardner Copy Share Image
“Mixing old wine with new wine is stupidity, but mixing old wisdom with new wisdom is maturity.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
“Creativity without discipline will struggle, creativity with discipline will succeed.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
“You can take the Indian out of the family, but you cannot take the family out of the Indian.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image