Feels Quote by Dan Chaon

When I sit down to write a novel I do not at all know, and I do not very much care, how it is…

— Anthony Trollope

I fear dying in the middle of a book. It would be so annoying to write 80,000 words and not get to the end.…

— Anthony Horowitz

It may sound very strange, but I love the freedom that writing a novel gives me. It is an unhindered experience. If I come…

— Ashwin Sanghi

I do find it challenging to leave stuff out. Two of my models for novel-writing are 'The Great Gatsby' and 'As I Lay Dying,'…

— Amy Bloom

If a novel or a story works, you don't stop thinking about it; it doesn't truly end.

— Peter Orner

Very often when a story really holds us, it gets pushed away because it's too close for comfort.

— Mike Nichols

When I am writing, I focus one hundred percent on my writing. Then, by the time I'm half way through the book, I'm already…

— Anita Desai

I never get used to it, the unknowable mystery of a person so suddenly, totally closed, snapped shut like a half-read novel.

— Linda Barnes

Probably the only thing that isn't great is the time when I know I'm very close to finishing the actual writing of the story…

— Christopher Paul Curtis

If you get discouraged about a section of a novel, that can be more catastrophic than getting discouraged about an individual story.

— Maggie Shipstead

I think novels just really show us the deepest parts of people's hearts, and you cannot walk away anymore and say, "I don't know."

— Edwidge Danticat

I consciously try to end my novels at a point where I won't have to wonder about my characters ever again.

— Anne Tyler