Behinds Quote by China Mieville

The only way to write a novel is to proceed as if you had all the time in the world.

— Philip Gerard

It's hard enough to make a novel a novel. I wouldn't know how to make it something else at the same time

— Matthew Specktor

Writing a novel is like heading out over the open sea in a small boat. It helps, if you have a plan and a…

— John Gardner

The first thing you have to consider when writing a novel is your story, and then your story - and then your story!

— Ford Madox Ford

No wonder you want to be a writer. How can you not, with all that behind you? You practically are a novel already.

— Sylvia Brownrigg

To make it interesting and worth doing, writing a novel has to be a leap into the unknown. I have to be unsure if…

— Charles Palliser

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

— Steve Erickson

Writing a book is like running a marathon. You need to be fit to do it, mentally and, as far as possible, physically.

— Catherine Mayer

Before you can write a novel you have to have a number of ideas that come together. One idea is not enough.

— Joyce Carol Oates

Writing a novel is an incredibly free experience. One puts one's self in a narrative mode. You can go off in any direction -…

— David Mamet

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

— Raphael Bob-Waksberg

The only advice I can give to aspiring writers is to write the book that you would want to read, and hope other people…

— Ruth Ware