Books Quote by Amy Waldman

I feel no desire to write a novel that takes place in the past.

— Mohsin Hamid

I always wanted to write novels, even before I had read a lot of novels or had a very good idea of what they…

— Elif Batuman

I've always wanted to write a novel. It's overwhelming and daunting, and it's one of those things that every writer fantasizes about doing.

— Howard Gordon

I had thought of writing, actually, and that later on I'd be a novelist.

— Francois Truffaut

I was reading a lot of books I admired, and thought that I would like to write something like that someday.

— Naguib Mahfouz

I hoped to be able to write a novel which would enable me to live on it while I wrote the next.

— Harper Lee

When I began to write seriously, 40 years ago now, my chosen form was the novel.

— William Nicholson

The only way to write a novel is to proceed as if you had all the time in the world.

— Philip Gerard

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

— Jonathan Ames

I always wanted to write a book. Not a romance novel. Maybe a crime thriller. Something with action. Maybe that will happen some day.

— Becky Sauerbrunn

I never really thought I'd be writing a book.

— Nate Bargatze

Oh you know, I've been writing a novel.

— Jarvis Cocker