Books Quote by Catherine Fisher

I spend eight months outlining and researching the novel before I begin to write a single word of the prose.

— Jeffery Deaver

I don't know how everyone writes a novel; that sounds exhausting.

— Raphael Bob-Waksberg

I'm not reading any novels right now, though not for lack of trying. Unless they're really good, my attention in most novels tends to…

— Matthew Healy

I love doing the research for the novels. For me, the writing is hard work.

— Clive Cussler

I spend a huge amount of time writing about the book instead of writing the actual text.

— Chris Pavone

I keep telling myself I should try very hard to write a novel of about 210 pages... I don't seem to be capable of…

— Elizabeth Kostova

I do write long, long character notes - family background, history, details of appearance - much more than will ever appear in the novel.…

— Anne Tyler

I'm not the most prolific writer in the world, and, sadly, writing a novel involves a lot of effort.

— Tibor Fischer

In the end I write the novels I need to write when I need to write them.

— Steve Erickson

I don't very often read novels.

— Sidney Poitier

I never plot out my novels in terms of the tone of the book. Hopefully, once a story is begun it reveals itself

— Alice Hoffman

To me, novels are a trip of discovery, and you discover things that you don't know and you assume that many of your readers…

— Tom Wolfe