Novel Takes Quotes
- A novel takes the courage of a marathon runner, and as long as you have to run, you might as well be a winning marathon… — Leon Uris
- Writing a first novel takes so much effort, with such little promise of result or reward, that it must necessarily be a labor of love… — Steven Saylor
- You are - all your experience just kind of accumulates, and the novel takes a richness of its own simply because it has the weight… — Donna Tartt
- Good fiction creates empathy. A novel takes you somewhere and asks you to look through the eyes of another person, to live another life. — Barbara Kingsolver
- I have to know the killer, the victim and the motive when I begin. Then I start to create the characters and see how the… — Elizabeth George