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Writing a novel is a lot like reading one.

— Katherine Center

Writing a novel isn't like building a brick wall. You don't figure out how to do it, and then it gets easier each time…

— Kate DiCamillo

Writing a novel is like an amusement park or a museum or a city. You go into that place and you have certain experiences…

— Mohsin Hamid

Is it not superfluous to write more than one novel if the writer has not become, say, a new man? Obviously, all the novels…

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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

With a novel, you have to have a story. It's much more important to have it matter to the reader what happens to people,…

— Dave Barry

For me, writing a novel is like having a dream. Writing a novel lets me intentionally dream while I'm still awake. I can continue…

— Haruki Murakami

Writing a book is hard. It turns out, writing a second book is twice as hard.

— Kami Garcia

I believe there are two ways of writing novels. One is mine, making a sort of musical comedy without music and ignoring real life…

— P. G. Wodehouse

The process of writing a novel is like taking a journey by boat. You have to continually set yourself on course. If you get…

— Walter Mosley

I've never been that person who thought that because I've written one novel, I should write another and another. It's only when there was…

— Arundhati Roy

Writing nonfiction is more like sculpture, a matter of shaping the research into the finished thing. Novels are like paintings, specifically watercolors. Every stroke…

— Joan Didion