Writing Novels Quotes

36 quotes by 34 authors

There's no lack of writers writing novels in America, about America. Therefore, it seems to me it would be wasteful for me to add to… — Chinua Achebe
Writing novels preserves you in a state of innocence - a lot passes you by - simply because your attention is otherwise diverted. — Anita Brookner
... there is ... a big aspect of play in writing novels, and making the story more and more elaborate is just more and more… — Gish Jen
I believe there are two ways of writing novels. One is mine, making a sort of musical comedy without music and ignoring real life altogether;… — P.G. Wodehouse
I started writing novels while an undergraduate student, in an attempt to make sense of the city of Edinburgh, using a detective as my protagonist.… — Ian Rankin
Writing novels is a way of living alternative lives. — Melvyn Bragg
One already feels like an anachronism, writing novels in the age of what-ever-this-is-the-age-of, but touring to promote them feels doubly anachronistic. The marketplace is showing… — Lev Grossman
Writing novels is the most exciting — Sidney Sheldon
I obviously prefer writing novels but I take my journalism very seriously, and I enjoy doing it between novels. It gives me an opportunity to… — Mordecai Richler
It's a feeling of happiness that knocks me clean out of adjectives. I think sometimes that the best reason for writing novels is to experience… — Zadie Smith
I really enjoy writing novels. Its like the ocean. You can just build a boat and take off. — Denis Johnson
If writing novels is like planting a forest, then writing short stories is more like planting a garden. — Haruki Murakami
People assume that science is a very cold sort of profession, whereas writing novels is a warm and fuzzy intuitive thing. But in fact, they… — Diana Gabaldon
One good reason for writing novels based on your life is that you have something to read in old age when you've forgotten what happened. — Nina Bawden
I think it's harder than ever to be an artist. I think that you end up, especially as a middle-aged person, you pay such big… — Dana Spiotta
As a kid I wanted to write science fiction, and I was never without a book. Later I really got into being a scientist and… — Daniel H. Wilson
Character is character and voice is voice, which translates nicely from writing novels to writing TV. But the process is different. You have a writer's… — Jennifer Weiner
In writing novels, you have to believe in yourself or there would be no way to sustain it. But you also have to give good… — Rachel Kushner
I'd probably still be a financial journalist now if it weren't for writing novels. Mmm. Fun! I'm much happier writing novels! — Sophie Kinsella
I love writing journalism because it's all over in two hours and comes straight off the top of the head. Writing novels is soooooo much… — Rachel Johnson

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