Write Novels Quotes

41 quotes by 35 authors

There are two kinds of sculptures. There's the kind that subtracts: Michelangelo starts with a block of marble and chips away. And then there is… — Jonathan Safran Foer
If you enjoy math and you write novels, it's very rare that you'll get a chance to put your math into a novel. I leapt… — Mark Haddon
When I was a teenager, I thought how great it would be if only I could write novels in English. I had the feeling that… — Haruki Murakami
I was convinced that the only thing I wanted to do ever - was write novels. — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
In effect I am not a novelist, but rather a failed essayist who started to write novels because he didn't know how to write essays. — Jose Saramago
If to live is to progress, if you are lucky, from foolishness to wisdom, then to write novels is to broadcast the various stages of… — Jane Smiley
Sometimes people write novels and they just be so wordy and so self-absorbed. — Kanye West
I don't think you can tell the objective truth about a person. That's why people write novels. — A. N. Wilson
Do you write novels?" I said. "Novels, Lord no," she said. "I can't even stay married. — Pam Houston
People without hope not only don't write novels, but what is more to the point, they don't read them. — Flannery O'Connor
Sometimes people write novels and they just be so wordy and so self-absorbed. I am not a fan of books ... I like to get… — Kanye West
Every novel is like this, desperation, a frustrated attempt to save something of the past. Except that it still has not been established whether it… — Jose Saramago
People without hope not only donâ€™t write novels, but what is more to the point, they donâ€™t read them. They donâ€™t take long looks at… — Flannery O'Connor
You do not learn how to write novels in a writing program. You learn how by leading an interesting life. Open yourself up to all… — Pat Conroy
As far as I am concerned, I write novels, and other people can do the labelling. — Peter Temple
I write novels with a lawyer as the hero, no matter how oxymoronic that might sound. — William Lashner
I had begun to write novels because of a fierce, self-serving impulse in my own heart. I had not considered the potential in a book… — Sue Monk Kidd
To me, the newspaper business was a way to learn about life and how things worked in the real world and how people spoke. You… — Carl Hiaasen
You give me the kind of feeling people write novels about. — Obviously Me :p

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