Books Quote by Carol Burnett

To make it interesting and worth doing, writing a novel has to be a leap into the unknown. I have to be unsure if…

— Charles Palliser

I'm always telling myself as I write that I'm not really writing a novel; I'm just going to fool around with a character or…

— Robert Cormier

I like to write about a lot of things, which is why my books are different. This is probably why I don't like to…

— Katherine Paterson

We all want to write the kind of book that we want to read. If you put in the things that you are thinking…

— Meg Wolitzer

I sort of like writing about weird characters, I guess.

— Donald Ray Pollock

When I'm writing a novel, I'm usually just trying to write about things that are interesting to me.

— Ruth Ozeki

What I write about in my novels is also what's in my life.

— Elin Hilderbrand

I think I write what's interesting to me, and so if I'm reading I like to have a very thorough idea of a character…

— Curtis Sittenfeld

No, I can't write a novel. I don't have a story.

— Harry Enfield

The fiction I tend to like is nothing like my own work. I like the kind of writing that shows me things I don't…

— Jim Woodring

I try to write about things, places, events, and phenomena I know about personally. That helps make the novels more genuine.

— Lincoln Child

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