Anguish Quote by Anonymous

“A novel is not an allegory, I said as the period was about to come to an end. It is the sensual experience of…

— Azar Nafisi

Writing a novel is agony.

— George Orwell

In every novel, I write about something - a place, an experience, an emotion - with which I'm intimately familiar, but it's also crucial…

— Julia Glass

Writing a book is an emotional odyssey, sometimes exhilarating, other times deflating.

— Ryan O'Neal

“A novel is not an allegory...it is a sensual experience of another world. If you don't enter that world, hold your breath with the…

— Azar Nafisi

You know that feeling, she said, when you are reading a book, and you know that it is going to be a tragedy; you…

— Cassandra Clare

“But a good novel is first of all an event; as distinguished from the continuous rush of many sensations and the messy overlapping experiences…

— Anonymous

For me, novel-writing, by its nature, contains months of feeling lost, gloomy, fatally misguided. The challenge has always been in assuring myself that by…

— Ben Dolnick

A novel is not an allegory.... It is the sensual experience of another world. If you don't enter that world, hold your breath with…

— Azar Nafisi

When I start, I have a feeling for the characters, and maybe the shape of the story. Sometimes I might even have the last…

— Paul Auster

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

— Raphael Bob-Waksberg

I think a novel has to be about where you are at a given moment in time. I think it really needs to represent…

— Maria Semple