Books Quote by Alice Hoffman

Nobody has time to write a book. Some people just do it anyhow.

— Sharyn McCrumb

You have to wait for your mind to catch up with whatever it is it’s working on; then you can write a novel.

— James M. Cain

You may be able to write a novel, you may not. You will never know until you have worked very hard indeed and written…

— Ngaio Marsh

There's a lot of ignorance about how long it takes to write a novel. There's a lot of ignorance about how long a novel…

— John Irving

A lot of aspiring writers are all ready to write a novel, but they don't know how to write sentences.

— Tom Robbins

The hard part about writing a novel is finishing it.

— Ernest Hemingway

Writing a novel isn't like building a brick wall. You don't figure out how to do it, and then it gets easier each time…

— Kate DiCamillo

You never learn how to write a novel. You just learn how to write the novel that you're writing.

— Gene Wolfe

Before you can write a novel you have to have a number of ideas that come together. One idea is not enough.

— Joyce Carol Oates

There's a point at which writing a book, or a long article, begins to feel like mental labor, and it's too painful to connect…

— Alexandra Fuller

A writer never finds the time to write. A writer makes it. If you don't have the drive, the discipline, and the desire, then…

— Nora Roberts

It's hard for me to think of writing a novel, because it takes so long.

— Jonathan Ames