I read all the time. Sometimes I get asked if I've thought about writing a novel. — Noah Baumbach Copy Share Image
When I'm writing a novel, I'm usually just trying to write about things that are interesting to me. — Ruth Ozeki Copy Share Image
Writing a novel without being asked seems a bit like having a baby when you have nowhere to live. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Writing a novel that crosses genres is a risk, but one well worth taking. — Chet Williamson Copy Share Image
When I am writing a novel I try not to read great prose stylists into which I will fall. — Frederick Busch Copy Share Image
There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
I can't stand it when people say, "If you're writing a novel, you should read this and that." Because it's like giving… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
What interests me in writing a novel is taking really remote voices, characters, and stories and beginning to create some kind of… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
Having been an editor for more than a decade, I thought I had a good idea of how much work was involved… — Julie Klassen Copy Share Image
“Writing a novel is like pottery. Your initial draft of your story is like a lump of clay. Editing is like shaping… — Monika Pardon Copy Share Image
Deciding to write a novel about something - as opposed to finding you are writing a novel around something - sounds to… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
Sometimes writing a novel is not unlike having a baby. You'd have to ask a female novelist to compare the pain. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I love to tell stories. I love to tell stories the way I tell them, not the way anybody else tells them.… — Carmen Boullosa Copy Share Image
When I was writing my first novel, 'Elizabeth is Missing,' I was writing the only novel I had ever written and writing… — Emma Healey Copy Share Image
“When you are writing a novel, you as the author will wear many hats. You are the writer, reader, and most importantly… — LaQuita Cameron Copy Share Image
Many great authors of the 19th century wrote under conditions of strict censorship. The great thing about the art of writing a… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
I had a novel in the back of my mind when I won an Ian St James story competition in 1993. At… — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
“To write a novel, you begin with what you can see and then you add what came before and what came after.… — Thomas Harris Copy Share Image
The process of writing a novel is getting to know more about the novel until you know everything about it. And it's… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
For me, writing a novel is like having a dream. Writing a novel lets me intentionally dream while I'm still awake. I… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
What I found interesting writing a screenplay as opposed to writing a novel is not the obvious thing, which is having to… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
There is, in fact, not much point in writing a novel unless you can show the possibility of moral transformation, or an… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
“When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature. If a writer can… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“I wish to try my hand at a novel," he said. "Just scribbling, I assure you, but it strikes me as such… — Kyle Muntz Copy Share Image
I think the success of every novel - if it's a novel of action - depends on the high spots. The thing… — P. G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
D.H. Lawrence, I think, defined the difference between writing an article and writing a novel very well. He said, in writing a… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
I really do believe that chance favours a prepared mind. Wallace Stegner, who was one of my teachers when I was at… — Scott Turow Copy Share Image
“A writer’s life is half ambition and half anxiety, and there has to be both. It is no good writing a novel… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
I prefer reading novels. Short stories are too much like daggers. And now that I'm done with my collection I'm more interested… — Ottessa Moshfegh Copy Share Image
It is so much hard work writing your first novel. You're not even sure that it is possible to do. — Asa Larsson Copy Share Image
Writing a novel can be solitary at times compared to screenwriting, but I don't mind that. — Ruth Jones Copy Share Image
I never want to feel constrained by writing a novel for a specific audience. — Christina Baker Kline Copy Share Image
“there is no better way to learn how to write than by writing a novel.” — Lawrence Block Copy Share Image
“There are three secrets to writing a novel. Unfortunately nobody knows what they are.” — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“The hardest thing about writing a novel is getting it published.” — Marianne Cushing Copy Share Image
