Being Quote by Chang-Rae Lee

Part of writing a novel is being willing to leap into the blackness. You have very little idea, really, of what's going to happen.…

— Chang-Rae Lee

Whenever I write a novel, most of the time it starts with barest slip of an idea.

— Elizabeth Berg

“Writing a story or a novel is one way of discovering sequence in experience, of stumbling upon cause and effect in the happenings of…

— Eudora Welty

The impulse to write a novel comes from a momentary unified vision of life.

— Angus Wilson

Writing a novel in general is like trying to reach a mountain top you'll never quite reach - so you try again and maybe…

— Harlan Coben

The process of writing a novel is getting to know more about the novel until you know everything about it. And it's been described…

— Martin Amis

I quickly realised that it is difficult to get started when writing a novel. You have this dream of what you want to create,…

— Patrick Modiano

A novel's whole pattern is rarely apparent at the outset of writing, or even at the end; that is when the writer finds out…

— Diane Johnson

“...a novel for me is a pretext, a way of starting up and sustaining a complicated and many layered inner exchange, a to-and-fro which…

— Sven Birkerts

The process of writing a novel begins with a pang, a moment of recognition, and a situation, a character, or something you read in…

— Martin Amis

The novelist helps us to see things we might not notice otherwise.

— Madeleine L'Engle

Every novel is an attempt to capture time, to weave something solid out of air. The author knows it is an impossible task -…

— Anonymous