Books Quote by Dan Chaon

Don't start writing your novel until you know your characters very, very well. What they'd do if they saw somebody shoplifting. What they were…

— Deborah Moggach

“I suppose I've never set out to write a novel in which nothing happens . . . only to write a novel about the…

— Alice McDermott

Travelling is like a novel: it's what happens that counts.

— George Sand

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

When I start writing a novel, I have no sense of direction, no idea, really nothing.

— William Gibson

I think most fiction writers naturally start by writing short stories, but some of us don't. When I first started writing, I just started…

— Andrea Barrett

Writing one's first novel, getting it sold, and shepherding it through the labyrinths of editing, production, marketing, journalism, and social media is an arduous…

— Paul Di Filippo

I write every day. I'm always in the process of writing my last book, until the next one.

— Farley Mowat

The hard part about writing a novel is finishing it.

— Ernest Hemingway

Then I decided I would spend the summer writing a novel. That would fix a lot of people.

— Sylvia Plath

One of the most difficult things in writing a novel or anything at all is to choose the point of view from which it's…

— Truman Capote

Having been an editor for more than a decade, I thought I had a good idea of how much work was involved in writing…

— Julie Klassen