Ambitious Quote by Annie Dillard

You can't write a novel all at once, any more than you can swallow a whale in one gulp. You do have to break…

— Orson Scott Card

It's difficult for me to have a large story, a very large story - a novel is a large story. I'm used to writing…

— Sandra Cisneros

I think what gets you through a small writing project, is just one burst of inspiration. A book, especially a longer book, it's a…

— Alan Lightman

I think shorter books are going to become more and more of the trend. So I don't think you have to write big, big,…

— Larry Winget

I don't always write in order, so composing multi-book stories could get complicated.

— Erin Morgenstern

I write short stories. They may appear big in size, but when you consider it, they're four or five novels in one... In return…

— James Clavell

Actually, I enjoy the process of writing a big long novel.

— Donna Tartt

Writing a novel is like heading out over the open sea in a small boat. It helps, if you have a plan and a…

— John Gardner

If I had a story idea that I felt would work best in three volumes I might write a trilogy eventually. I'd very likely…

— Erin Morgenstern

Writing a book is something I actually feel like I could do. I don't know when that would happen, but I feel like if…

— Paul F. Tompkins

Writing long books is a laborious and impoverishing act of foolishness: expanding in five hundred pages an idea that could be perfectly explained in…

— Jorge Luis Borges

Writing a long and substantial book is like having a friend and companion at your side, to whom you can always turn for comfort…

— Anonymous