Bliss Quote by David Macaulay

For me, novel-writing, by its nature, contains months of feeling lost, gloomy, fatally misguided. The challenge has always been in assuring myself that by…

— Ben Dolnick

I'm always working on my next novel, even when I'm not.

— George Pelecanos

I've always got a novel under way, but if I try to work on it every day, exclusively, I falter. So I always keep…

— Thomas Mallon

Ive always got a novel under way, but if I try to work on it every day, exclusively, I falter. So I always keep…

— Thomas Mallon

When I'm working on a novel of my own, I try to read mostly nonfiction, although sometimes I break down and peek at something…

— Carl Hiaasen

Novels for me are how I find out what's going on in my own head. And so that's a really useful and indeed critical…

— Cory Doctorow

I have resolved to pick one novel and just read it over and over again for the rest of my life, because I cannot…

— Hugh Laurie

Even today, I hunt for the fabulous books that will change me utterly. I find myself happiest in the middle of a book which…

— Pat Conroy

When I am writing novels I don't read a lot of novels so I try to catch up in-between.

— Salman Rushdie

I do novels a bit backward. I look for a situation, a milieu first, and then I wait to see who walks into it.

— Tom Wolfe

I'm always reading several books at the same time, depending on how deeply engrossed in it I am, if it's fiction and if it…

— Andie MacDowell

I look on my life as raw material for my novels: that's just the way I am, and it frees me from any inhibitions.

— Imre Kertész