Article Quote by Cynthia Ozick

I'd never written a novel before, and I wrote a novel, and that turned out OK.

— Rainbow Rowell

I never, ever decided that I had to write a novel because, to me, there's no such decision that ought to be made. It's…

— Arundhati Roy

No, I can't write a novel. I don't have a story.

— Harry Enfield

When I was very little, say five or six, I became aware of the fact that people wrote books. Before that, I thought that…

— Fran Lebowitz

I don't think I have a very novelistic brain. I like to read, but I don't know if I could ever write a novel.

— Jacob Anderson

I never really thought I'd be writing a book.

— Nate Bargatze

I've never actually even contemplated writing a book or having a book.

— Rob Machado

I always wanted to write novels, even before I had read a lot of novels or had a very good idea of what they…

— Elif Batuman

If I ever wrote a book, people would never believe it.

— Dick Dale

I had novels to write, so I wrote them.

— Octavia E. Butler

I'm not a writer. I haven't written anything.

— Emma Stone

For me, writing a novel is more like digging a well than climbing a mountain - some heroic thing where I set out to…

— Mohsin Hamid