Annihilation Quote by Andrew O'Hagan

You have to understand, writing a novel gets very weird and invisible-friend-from-childhood-ish. Then you kill that thing, which was never really alive except in…

— David Foster Wallace

Writing a novel is a terrible experience, during which the hair often falls out and the teeth decay. I'm always irritated by people who…

— Flannery O'Connor

Writing a novel is like childbirth: once you realize how awful it really is, you never want to do it again.

— Sarah Dessen

But once an idea for a novel seizes a writer...well, it’s like an inner fire that at first warms you and makes you feel…

— Dean Koontz

Writing fiction is ... an endless and always defeated effort to capture some quality of life without killing it.

— Rose Wilder Lane

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 do want to say the process of writing a novel is riddled with self-doubt and self-loathing.

— Meg Wolitzer

To me, novels are a trip of discovery, and you discover things that you don't know and you assume that many of your readers…

— Tom Wolfe

The process of writing a novel is getting to know more about the novel until you know everything about it. And it's been described…

— Martin Amis

I don't know how everyone writes a novel; that sounds exhausting.

— Raphael Bob-Waksberg

Novel writing, like so many things in life, is an iterative process. You come at it again and again, working at it like you…

— Kameron Hurley

Writing a novel is an incredibly free experience. One puts one's self in a narrative mode. You can go off in any direction -…

— David Mamet