When you're writing a novel, you don't want the reader to come out of it voting yes or no to some question.… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Writing a novel proved to be the hardest, most self-analyzing task I had ever attempted, far worse than an autobiography: and its… — Dick Francis Copy Share Image
I would much rather not be the center of attention, and I'd much rather travel and be writing my novel, rather than… — Willis Earl Beal Copy Share Image
I'm writing another novel and I know what I'm going to do after, which may be something more like this again, maybe… — Penelope Lively Copy Share Image
It’s such a confidence trick, writing a novel. The main person you have to trick into confidence is yourself. This is hard… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
You can catch a scent in the wind - an idea, or a concept - and follow it. You can delve into… — Lynn Coady Copy Share Image
Writing one's first novel, getting it sold, and shepherding it through the labyrinths of editing, production, marketing, journalism, and social media is… — Paul Di Filippo Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
To know what you want to say is not the best condition for writing a novel. Novels go happiest when you discover… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
“Somedays you have to write even when you think you're putting out crap. You just need to tell yourself that you'll fix… — Christopher Rice Copy Share Image
If you want to draw people into the story, you really have to write as if you're writing a novel and make… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
For me, writing a novel is more like digging a well than climbing a mountain - some heroic thing where I set… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
The writing of a novel or short story or poem or whatever should elevate the audience, not drag the writer down to… — Caitlín R. Kiernan Copy Share Image
If you're writing a novel, you can afford to see where the spirit takes you, but in terms of structure and engineering… — Jane Goldman Copy Share Image
After writing a novel, what is there to say? If a novelist could say it in a maxim, they wouldn't need 120,000… — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
Don't start writing your novel until you know your characters very, very well. What they'd do if they saw somebody shoplifting. What… — Deborah Moggach Copy Share Image
When writing a novel, I'm not smart enough to know how to foreshadow something if I don't know what it is. — John Irving Copy Share Image
People are rushed and inspired by the success of Indian writers, and are falling over themselves to write novels. Every Indian is… — Karan Mahajan Copy Share Image
“Writing a novel is like running a marathon. Selling one is like building a castle. You gotta do it one brick at… — Charles R. Hall Copy Share Image
To make it interesting and worth doing, writing a novel has to be a leap into the unknown. I have to be… — Charles Palliser Copy Share Image
Writing a novel is an intense and lonely business, but you have the reward at the end of a very direct dialogue… — Neil Cross Copy Share Image
My first attempt at writing a novel was horrible. I had to throw it away. But I stuck with the idea, which… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
I had just begun an M.A. in Creative Writing, and I had to write a novel, so I began writing a novel… — Neel Mukherjee Copy Share Image
The business of writing a novel is a long, meandering road into the self, into the imagination. And it's a road the… — Lisa Unger Copy Share Image
The good thing about writing a novel is that you're creating an imaginary world and can take a break when you need… — Liane Moriarty Copy Share Image
Writing a novel is like driving a car at night. Sometimes you run over a drunk who's lain down and fallen asleep… — E. L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
“At some point you’re going to have to formulate your copy, and if you do it early, it will keep you from… — James Scott Bell Copy Share Image
“Writing a novel creates a window to a new way of looking at the world. Reading one means looking through that window.” — Mark Rubinstein Copy Share Image
Yes, writing a novel, my boy, is like driving pigs to market - you have one of them making a bolt down… — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
“Writing a novel is like driving at night in the fog. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you… — E. L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
I never plan. I never know what the next page is going to be… But that's the fun of writing a novel… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Part of writing a novel is being willing to leap into the blackness. You have very little idea, really, of what's going… — Chang-Rae Lee Copy Share Image
Writing a novel is a lot like directing a movie because you are creating a world and a tone, you are creating… — Stephen Chbosky Copy Share Image
“There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are. —W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM” — Wendy Wax Copy Share Image
Writing a novel is like trying to solve a very long mathematical equation. Changing anything can change everything else. — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
The first thing you have to consider when writing a novel is your story, and then your story - and then your… — Ford Madox Ford Copy Share Image
I'm always telling myself as I write that I'm not really writing a novel; I'm just going to fool around with a… — Robert Cormier Copy Share Image
Writing a novel is like heading out over the open sea in a small boat. It helps, if you have a plan… — John Gardner Copy Share Image
Writing a first novel takes so much effort, with such little promise of result or reward, that it must necessarily be a… — Steven Saylor Copy Share Image
Writing a sitcom compared with writing a novel is a bit like the difference between going on a big, noisy group holiday… — Jesse Armstrong Copy Share Image
