Books Quote by Andrew Sean Greer

I wrote my first story in second grade, and was trying novel-length by sixth.

— Brian Hodge

One of the first serious attempts I made to write a novel was when I was in Grade 6 and I had read 'Matilda.'…

— Randa Abdel-Fattah

Don't pass it by - the immediate, the real, the ours, the yours, the novelist's that it waits for.

— Henry James

I always tell my students, 'If you walk around with your eyes and ears open, you can't possibly live long enough to write all…

— Jill McCorkle

“Stop trying to write a novel. Just tell a story, type it up, 1 hour every day, and by the end of the year,…

— Ksenia Anske

I wasn't sitting around years ago thinking, 'I really want to write a novel.

— Amy Waldman

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

“Eventually, we come to love certain novels because we have expended so much imaginative labor on them. This is why we hang on to…

— Orhan Pamuk

“Writing a book is like pulling strands out of your soul, one by one, until one day instead of a mess it finally looks…

— Ksenia Anske

I don't have a name and I don't have a plot. I have the typewriter and I have white paper and I have me,…

— William Saroyan

“Writing a book is a herculean task, but the toughest thing is to get convinced with your work, and finally give it a green…

— Shivam Chaudhary

In my experience, a novel is the culmination of various thoughts and impressions collected over time, until something comes along to give them a…

— J. Courtney Sullivan