To write a novel, you begin with what you can see and then…

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

— Thomas Harris

You don't want to be ungenerous toward people who give you prizes, but it is never the social or political message that interests me…

— John Irving

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

We read five words on the first page of a really good novel and we begin to forget that we are reading printed words…

— Anonymous

The DNA of the novel - which, if I begin to write nonfiction, I will write about this - is that: the title of…

— Mary Kay Zuravleff

With any novel that you begin, you can't foresee how difficult or easy it's going to be, and you can't really prepare yourself. You…

— Jane Smiley

There is no other way of writing a novel than to begin at the beginning at to continue to the end.

— C. S. Forester

If only a group of people were more important to me than the idea of a Novel, I might begin a novel.

— Sylvia Plath

“When does a novel begin? The question is almost as difficult to answer as the question, when does the human embryo become a person? ”

— David Lodge

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

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