Books Quote by Arundhati Roy

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

I've always wanted to write a book. And it turned out that it was more about finding a story that I felt I was…

— Hank Green

I would like to write a novel, or at least try to write one, although my motives are not entirely pure. For one thing,…

— Kelly Link

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 never really wanted to write a book in the first place. Never intended to do such. I feel like I wasted a lot…

— Scarface

I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it.

— Toni Morrison

Eventually, I realised that I wanted to try to create something myself, and that's what writing novels is. Not because I wanted to put…

— Chris Pavone

I always wanted to write novels, even before I had read a lot of novels or had a very good idea of what they…

— Elif Batuman

I feel as though I never had choice not to be a writer. I feel in my heart of hearts that writing chose me…

— Jerdine Nolen

I'd never written a novel before, and I wrote a novel, and that turned out OK.

— Rainbow Rowell

I knew I wanted to write novels, but I could not finish what I started. The closer I got, the more ways I'd find…

— Steven Pressfield

For me, writing a novel is more like digging a well than climbing a mountain - some heroic thing where I set out to…

— Mohsin Hamid