Best Writing Novels Quotes

36 Writing Novels quotes by 34 unique authors

If writing novels is like planting a forest, then writing short stories is more like planting a garden. The two processes complement each other, creating… — Haruki Murakami
Writing novels is the hardest thing I've ever done, including digging irrigation ditches. — Thomas Harris
My first attraction to writing novels was the plot, that almost extinct animal. Those novels I read which made me want to be a novelist… — John Irving
I wanted to be a writer, but the idea of writing novels or movies seemed really intimidating. I never got more than a few pages… — Kurt Busiek
I love research. Sometimes I think writing novels is just an excuse to allow myself this leisurely time of getting to know a period and… — Sarah Waters
All human states are organic brain states - happiness, sadness, fear, lust, dreaming, doing math problems and writing novels - and our brains are not… — Siri Hustvedt
The easy answer is that writing novels is a lot more fun than practicing law. — Jeffery Deaver
Sometimes I ask myself if writing novels is even respectable. — Lorrie Moore
After these three novels I gave up writing novels for a time; I was dissatisfied with romantic doom, yet didn't see much way around it. — Nicholas Mosley
I developed the habit of writing novels behind a closed door, or at my uncle's, on the dining table. — Patrick White

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