Writing a novel is agony.

“There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are. —W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM”

— Wendy Wax

Writing a novel is like knocking on a door that will never open. You are so desperate to get in, you will say or…

— Samantha Shannon

I certainly don't sit down and plan a book out before I write it. There's a phrase I use called "The Valley Full of…

— Terry Pratchett

I'm writing a novel about the Syrian war. It will be completely different from my short stories. I have to address my feelings directly…

— Osama Alomar

Don't start writing your novel until you know your characters very, very well. What they'd do if they saw somebody shoplifting. What they were…

— Deborah Moggach

Seven years into writing a novel, I started to lose my mind. My thirty-seventh birthday had just come and gone, the end of 2008…

— Akhil Sharma

To make it interesting and worth doing, writing a novel has to be a leap into the unknown. I have to be unsure if…

— Charles Palliser

Writing one's first novel, getting it sold, and shepherding it through the labyrinths of editing, production, marketing, journalism, and social media is an arduous…

— Paul Di Filippo

The hard part about writing a novel is finishing it.

— Ernest Hemingway

Then I decided I would spend the summer writing a novel. That would fix a lot of people.

— Sylvia Plath

One of the most difficult things in writing a novel or anything at all is to choose the point of view from which it's…

— Truman Capote

Having been an editor for more than a decade, I thought I had a good idea of how much work was involved in writing…

— Julie Klassen

If you're writing a novel, you're in a room for three or four years. There's not much coming in from the outside.

— Mordecai Richler

When you're writing a novel, you spend four years sitting in your basement and a year waiting for the book to come out and…

— John Green

Writing a novel can be solitary at times compared to screenwriting, but I don't mind that.

— Ruth Jones