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- 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… — 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 Powers
- 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… — 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… — 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… — 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