Books Quote by Cassandra Clare

And the nice thing about writing a novel is you take your time, you sit with the character sometimes nine years, you look very…

— Sandra Cisneros

Characters are so important to a story that they actually decide where the story is going. When I write, I know my characters. I…

— E. L. Konigsburg

The first thing you have to consider when writing a novel is your story, and then your story - and then your story!

— Ford Madox Ford

Good writing is remembering detail. Most people want to forget. Don't forget things that were painful or embarrassing or silly. Turn them into a…

— Paula Danziger

Writing fiction is like remembering what never happened.

— Siri Hustvedt

Writing a novel is always complicated, it's not like you snap your fingers and go, 'Ah, I know what I'll write'. For me, a…

— Reif Larsen

The reason a writer writes a book is to forget a book and the reason a reader reads one is to remember it.

— Anonymous

I find that a lot of my best character stuff and ideas come unwittingly from novels. In scripts, it's a lot about the outward…

— Alison Pill

Every story we remember is a novel. Novels make things more universal.

— Dave Eggers

I always knew writing a novel was a great thing.

— James Salter

“When writing fiction, you learn to only put things and characters in, that are going to progress your story. There is something to be…

— Carl Henegan

Characters are the key to a good book. It took me several novels to comprehend that.

— Michael Morpurgo