You're looking for something, I don't know what I'm…

You know, there is something I'm looking for when I'm writing. But I couldn't tell you what that is.

— Tom Verlaine

I had originally been looking at writing, including fiction.

— Ben Rhodes

“To write a novel, you begin with what you can see and then you add what came before and what came after.”

— Thomas Harris

I don't assume, because I can write screenplays, that I know how to write a novel. It's a very different world. There's a craft…

— Melissa Rosenberg

I've never been that person who thought that because I've written one novel, I should write another and another. It's only when there was…

— Arundhati Roy

“To write a poem...to paint an image on canvass from the contemplation of nature and life...is to be present again in this world more…

— Deeper sense of presence Isabella koldras

If you're angry, you don't have to write a poem dealing with the cause of your anger. But it needs to be an angry…

— Jay Asher

One of the things that's good for me is that I can go from one art form to another. Because I think if I…

— Rebecca Miller

A publisher many years ago asked if I'd like to write a novel for £50. And I said, 'Absolutely.'

— Tom Stoppard

It takes me two to three years to write a novel. A screenplay is 100 pages and takes five years.

— Nick Hornby

I've heard Stephen King say that when you write a novel you end up revealing everything about yourself.

— Ernest Cline

I'm pretty hardcore. I stick exactly to what I'm doing. So I write a novel in one period, and then I'll write stories in…

— T.C. Boyle

If you get trapped in your head and out of your body during the writing process, it's very easy to make wrong turns. You…

— Soman Chainani

When people write a novel, they want to have that reach and that impact. To get it with a first novel, you can either…

— Irvine Welsh

When I need to take a side, I write a newspaper article and I tell my government, "You should not do that, you should…

— Amos Oz