Don't ever write a novel unless it hurts like a hot turd coming out. — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
In ordinary detective novels you never see the consequences of what happens in a story in the next book. That you do… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Novel-writing is a bit like deception. You lie as little as you possibly can. That's the way I do it, anyway. — Joseph O'Neill Copy Share Image
For all my longer works (i.e. the novels) I write chapter outlines so I can have the pleasure of departing from them… — Garth Nix Copy Share Image
My boyfriend suggested I write two pages a day. He wouldn't take me out if I hadn't done my two pages. That's… — S. E. Hinton Copy Share Image
'The Cauliflower' is not strictly a novel, as Barker says in her indispensable afterword. — Justin Cartwright Copy Share Image
The novel is a meditation on existence as seen through the medium of imaginary characters. — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
There are no laws for the novel. There never have been, nor can there ever be. — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
I'm in that very preliminary stage of wondering how exactly to "pressurize" the novel in some way I've never considered before. — Mark Leyner Copy Share Image
A police procedural novel can be even funnier if the police include Trolls and Dwarves and things like that. You start looking… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
All middle-class novels are about the trials of three, all upper-class novels about mass fornication, all revolutionary novels about a bad man… — Christina Stead Copy Share Image
I knew the basic outline of the novel [The Dissemblers] and would write whatever scene of the book I felt particularly excited… — Liza Campbell Copy Share Image
The best picture has not yet been painted; the greatest poem is still unsung; the mightiest novel remains to be written; the… — Lincoln Steffens Copy Share Image
I was interested in the ripples of feminism passing through Britain and Ireland in the mid-Seventies - how the reverberations of the… — Maggie O'Farrell Copy Share Image
I work very deliberately, with a plan. But sometimes I come to a point that I planned as the end and it… — Colm Toibin Copy Share Image
In Among the White Moon Faces, I wrote about my desire to be a writer as rooted in my obsessive hours of… — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
“The manager swiftly overtook him, sliding effortlessly past the skinny Englishman, with the practiced ease of someone used to slinking around ailing,… — Tom Vater Copy Share Image
I think the most important thing is just to write. It sounds so simple, but sometimes it's not. You can get so… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
For even satire is a form of sympathy. It is the way our sympathy flows and recoils that really determines our lives.… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
You could say that this book is ripped from the headlines, but that wouldn't be fair. Bret Anthony Johnston's riveting novel picks… — Tom Perrotta Copy Share Image
Learning is available at the library for free; under a tree with a dog-eared paperback; at a job with a boss who… — Michael Ellsberg Copy Share Image
The novel has become a function of the fragmented society, the fragmented consciousness. Human beings are so divided, are becoming more and… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
Writing fiction lets you be a little more emotional and unguarded, a little freer. Writing fictional characters is also really different from… — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
“A sensible person does not read a novel as a task. He reads it as a diversion. He is prepared to interest… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“Cold November nights. It feels as if summer never happened. The beauty of setting sun, moon, and stars. Sailing to nowhere, but… — Fidelis O Mkparu Copy Share Image
“I thought if I loved you enough I could change you. I was so stupid.” — Steven Ramirez Copy Share Image
I'll write to you. A super-long letter, like in an old-fashioned novel — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
![“I knew the basic outline of the novel [The Dissemblers] and would write whatever scene of the book I felt particularly excited about at the time.” quote by Liza Campbell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/655/liza-campbell-17930_book_i-knew-the-basic-outline-of-the-novel-th_2561626.jpg)
