Books Quote by Carl Sagan

There is, in fact, not much point in writing a novel unless you can show the possibility of moral transformation, or an increase in…

— Anthony Burgess

I try to write books that are different from the books I've already written. I think one of the thing I really try to…

— James Frey

A writer's problem does not change. He himself changes and the world he lives in changes but his problem remains the same. It is…

— Ernest Hemingway

A novel means a new way of doing a story

— Romesh Gunesekera

In the novel, I can change things and simplify, and make events work towards whatever meanings I'm trying to get at more efficiently.

— Nicholson Baker

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

— Raphael Bob-Waksberg

Before you can write a novel you have to have a number of ideas that come together. One idea is not enough.

— Joyce Carol Oates

Novel writing, like so many things in life, is an iterative process. You come at it again and again, working at it like you…

— Kameron Hurley

It takes a lot of energy and a lot of neurosis to write a novel. If you were really sensible, you'd do something else.

— Lawrence Durrell

Writing a novel is a lot like reading one.

— Katherine Center

“Writing a novel is just like life ... it's only in the doing of it that I find out what works.”

— Angela Young

Writing a novel in general is like trying to reach a mountain top you'll never quite reach - so you try again and maybe…

— Harlan Coben