Books Quote by Andrew Greeley

Writing a novel is always complicated, it's not like you snap your fingers and go, 'Ah, I know what I'll write'. For me, a…

— Reif Larsen

And when I'm writing, I write a lot anyway. I might write pages and pages of conversation between characters that don't necessarily end up…

— Norton Juster

I write fast. But it takes me a while to get going. It's very important for me to see my whole plot. I have…

— Vikas Swarup

I am not one of those writers that it just flows out of effortlessly. I have to sit and write and rewrite and sometimes…

— Princess Superstar

The great thing about writing is that you always put yourself in the shoes of the character. If you're doing it right, you can…

— Peter Gould

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 character or…

— Robert Cormier

Writing a novel is an intense and lonely business, but you have the reward at the end of a very direct dialogue between you…

— Neil Cross

I do write a lot of prose. It's not disciplined enough yet that it's actually become stories, or short stories. The idea of writing…

— PJ Harvey

I pretty much drink a cup of coffee, write in my journal for a while, and then sit at a computer in my office…

— Jess Walter

For me, writing a novel is more like digging a well than climbing a mountain - some heroic thing where I set out to…

— Mohsin Hamid

With a novel, you have to have a story. It's much more important to have it matter to the reader what happens to people,…

— Dave Barry

In the end I write the novels I need to write when I need to write them.

— Steve Erickson