Any Quote by Dan Brown

I've never discovered the idea for my next novel while I was still working on the current novel. Other writers don't suffer this.

— James Thayer

Once I decided to write, to be published, I knew it would happen.

— Augusten Burroughs

I feel a terrible loss when I (eventually must) complete a work of fiction.

— Joyce Carol Oates

I've lost much of my heart and the spark or fire that once 'created,' or produced, the art of fiction.

— Rick Bass

In a novel, you can always go back and make it look like you knew what you were doing all along before the thing…

— Neil Gaiman

Ive lost much of my heart and the spark or fire that once created, or produced, the art of fiction.

— Rick Bass

I always wanted to write fiction. Always. As far back as I can remember it's been integral to my sense of myself - everything…

— Will Self

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

— Elizabeth Berg

Before the day my grandmother shared her treasured letters with me, I honestly wasn't much of a fiction reader, let alone creative writer.

— Kristina McMorris

The novel, for me, was an accident. I really don't consider myself a novelist.

— Wole Soyinka

I don't really consider myself a novelist, it just came out purely by accident.

— Wole Soyinka

I wish I could go back and re-write my first novel for the first time. Because I really didn't know what I was doing,…

— Peter Straub