Novel Quote by Carmen Boullosa

“If the characters are not wicked, the book is." We must tell stories the way God does, stories in which a sister must float…

— G.K. Chesterton

To me and my kind life itself is a story and we have to tell it in stories - that is the way it…

— Rumer Godden

I tell my stories the way I tell them in real life, the way I talk or describe things.

— Saeed Jaffrey

I just try to tell my stories in a way that is still light-hearted and fun to listen to. I'm not trying to bash…

— Alessia Cara

I tell the stories in the way that feels natural to tell them.

— Steve Erickson

“We must tell stories the way God does, stories in which a sister must float her little brother on a river with nothing but…

— N.D. Wilson

I like storytelling. We all have an active thing that we do that gives us self-esteem, that makes us proud; it's necessary. I have…

— Paul Zindel

This is my life - I want to tell stories. There is something huge inside me that pushes me to tell stories, and tell…

— Dario Argento

Then I decided I would spend the summer writing a novel. That would fix a lot of people.

— Sylvia Plath

One of the most difficult things in writing a novel or anything at all is to choose the point of view from which it's…

— Truman Capote

Having been an editor for more than a decade, I thought I had a good idea of how much work was involved in writing…

— Julie Klassen

If you're writing a novel, you're in a room for three or four years. There's not much coming in from the outside.

— Mordecai Richler

When you're writing a novel, you spend four years sitting in your basement and a year waiting for the book to come out and…

— John Green

“There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are. —W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM”

— Wendy Wax

The hard part about writing a novel is finishing it.

— Ernest Hemingway