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- There's no lack of writers writing novels in America, about America. Therefore, it seems to me it would be wasteful for me… — Chinua Achebe
- Writing novels preserves you in a state of innocence - a lot passes you by - simply because your attention is otherwise… — Anita Brookner
- ... there is ... a big aspect of play in writing novels, and making the story more and more elaborate is just… — Gish Jen
- I believe there are two ways of writing novels. One is mine, making a sort of musical comedy without music and ignoring… — 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… — 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… — 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… — 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… — 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