Writing a novel is easier than writing a memoir; you are not constrained by the truth. — Steve Bisley Copy Share Image
“Writing a novel is the closest thing a male writer will ever get to the experience of childbirth.” — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
When one is writing a novel in the first person, one must be that person. — Daphne du Maurier Copy Share Image
It's the technique, I think, of writing a novel that is difficult for a nonfiction writer. — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
The whole process of writing a novel is having this great, beautiful idea and then spoiling it. — Diane Johnson Copy Share Image
Writing a novel is like building a wall brick by brick; only amateurs believe in inspiration. — Frank Yerby Copy Share Image
Writing a novel is not merely going on a shopping expedition across the border to an unreal land: it is hours and… — Janet Frame Copy Share Image
At the time I begin writing a novel, the last thing I want to do is follow a plot outline. To know… — Elmore Leonard Copy Share Image
The monotony of staying in one place is the best thing for writing a novel. Having regular habits, a kind of security,… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
Writing a novel is like making love, but it's also like having a tooth pulled. Pleasure and pain. Sometimes it's like making… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Only another writer can know how much damage writing a novel can do to you. It's an unnatural activity to sit at… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
“Martin: Yes, I'd like to go home and do some work. I'm writing a novel about women from the women's point of… — Caryl Churchill Copy Share Image
For me, writing a novel is like solving a puzzle. But I don't intend my novels as puzzles. I intend them as… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
Writing a novel is like an amusement park or a museum or a city. You go into that place and you have… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
In writing a novel, the writer must be able to identify emotionally and intellectually with two or three or four contradicting perspectives… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
Writing the novel felt so private to me! I think publishing a novel is quite public and exposing, and what's a little… — Garth Greenwell Copy Share Image
I discovered ... that a novel has nothing to do with words in the first instance. Writing a novel is a cosmological… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
I enjoy both TV writing and novel writing, and they are very similar. The goal is to entertain and amuse the audience,… — Jonathan Ames Copy Share Image
As a teacher at Princeton, I'm surrounded by people who work hard so I just make good use of my time. And… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
Writing a novel, in an unplanned and unpredictable way, makes you engaged; it takes you into yourself, and it becomes something between… — David Bezmozgis Copy Share Image
I'm writing a novel about the Syrian war. It will be completely different from my short stories. I have to address my… — Osama Alomar Copy Share Image
“Writing a novel and living a life are very much the same thing. The secret is finding the balance between going out… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
E.L. Doctorow said once said that 'Writing a novel is like driving a car at night. You can see only as far… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
A short story is a sprint, a novel is a marathon. Sprinters have seconds to get from here to there and then… — Jonathan Carroll Copy Share Image
I was a lot dumber when I was writing the novel. I felt like worse of a writer because I wrote many… — Miranda July Copy Share Image
“Whatever one may say, writing a novel is a very different thing from living one. All the same our lives are not… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“Writing a novel— actually picking the words and filling in paragraphs— is a tremendous pain in the ass. Now that TV’s so… — Steve Hely Copy Share Image
When it’s too good, you do it over again. Too good is too easy. If it’s too easy you have to worry.… — James M. Cain Copy Share Image
Most really good fiction is compelled into being. It comes from a kind of uncalculated innocence. You need not have your ending… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“The principle I always go on in writing a novel is to think of the characters in terms of actors in a… — P.G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
“Writing a novel is like going a great distance to take a small shit.” — Harlan Ellison Copy Share Image
