Books Quote by Anne Rice

Holy cow - everything about writing a novel is hard for me.

— Laura van den Berg

Writing a novel that works is an extremely difficult thing to do. It requires a level of skill and dedication that always surprises me.

— Bret Easton Ellis

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

— Jonathan Ames

I'm not the most prolific writer in the world, and, sadly, writing a novel involves a lot of effort.

— Tibor Fischer

Writing a book is so much harder than I imagined.

— Eva Gutowski

It is so much hard work writing your first novel. You're not even sure that it is possible to do.

— Asa Larsson

Initially I only decided to try and write a novel because I wasn't getting enough screenwriting work. It wasn't a long-held ambition, and certainly…

— Stef Penney

“The hardest thing about writing a novel is getting it published.”

— Marianne Cushing

Writing is the hardest thing I know, but it was the only thing I wanted to do. I wrote for 20 years and published…

— Kent Haruf

Writing has got to be some of the hardest work I know.

— Lloyd Alexander

My first novel was a challenge to myself. No one had an inkling that I was working on it.

— Vikas Swarup

A novel is challenging, because you have more story than you need and you have to select and narrow.

— Peter Hedges