Novel Writing Quotes

19 quotes by 17 authors

• The central problem of novel-writing is causality. — Jorge Luis Borges
• Novel-writing can be a cold-blooded business. One uses whatever happens to be lying around in memory and employs it to suit one’s end….Then, again, during… — J. L. Carr
• Novel writing is far and away the most exhausting work I know. — C S Forester
• Novel-writing is the only place where someone who would have liked to do anything can still do that vicariously, — Richard Power
• Novel writing is like heroin addiction; it takes everything you've got. — James N. Frey
• Novel writing should never be confused with journalism. Unfortunately, in the case of Primary Colors, a fair number of journalists confused. — Joe Klein
• Nothing beats novel writing because it's complete expression of you. You just control everything. Not even a movie director has that level of control. — Tom Perrotta
• I'm a failed poet. Maybe every novelist wants to write poetry first, finds he can't and then tries the short story which is the most… — William Faulkner
• Novel-writing is a bit like deception. You lie as little as you possibly can. That's the way I do it, anyway. — Joseph O'Neill
• Not getting bored of my own story and/or character is one of the main struggles I have had with novel writing, and I have put… — Aimee Bender
• Novel writing wrecks homes. — C S Forester
• There isn't, even now, a great tradition of novel-writing in Afghanistan. Most of the literature is in the form of poetry. — Khaled Hosseini
• I binge write. I think it's because I started seriously writing by participating in National Novel Writing Month, an online-based challenge to write 50,000 words… — Erin Morgenstern
• The dull people decided years and years ago, as everyone knows, that novel-writing was the lowest species of literary exertion, and that novel reading was… — Wilkie Collins
• I love the sound of words, the feel of them, the flow of them. I love the challenge of finding just that perfect combination of… — Lauren Willig
• When I am writing fiction, I believe I am much better organized, more methodical - one has to be when writing a novel. Writing poetry… — Margaret Atwood
• A logic proof is: you get a starting point and an ending point, and you have to get there through all these different steps and… — Heidi Julavits
• Novel writing is solitary work. — Mohsin Hamid
• Novel writing is the slowest art form in the world. It is not a sprint. It is not even a marathon. It is a series… — Mohsin Hamid

Who Wrote These Novel Writing Quotes

17 authors contributed a total of 19 Novel Writing Quotes as follows:

• 2 Novel Writing Quotes by Mohsin Hamid
• 2 Novel Writing Quotes by C S Forester
• 1 Novel Writing Quote by William Faulkner
• 1 Novel Writing Quote by Joseph O'Neill
• 1 Novel Writing Quote by Aimee Bender
• 1 Novel Writing Quote by Khaled Hosseini
• 1 Novel Writing Quote by Erin Morgenstern
• 1 Novel Writing Quote by Wilkie Collins
• 1 Novel Writing Quote by Lauren Willig
• 1 Novel Writing Quote by Margaret Atwood
• 1 Novel Writing Quote by Heidi Julavits
• 1 Novel Writing Quote by Jorge Luis Borges
• 1 Novel Writing Quote by J. L. Carr
• 1 Novel Writing Quote by Richard Power
• 1 Novel Writing Quote by James N. Frey
• 1 Novel Writing Quote by Joe Klein
• 1 Novel Writing Quote by Tom Perrotta