Books Quote by David Mitchell

For me, a novel is always the result of my attempt to impose myself on raw circumstances. It is a concrete form of lived…

— Rachel Cusk

Novels are so interior and idiosyncratic and such a solitary process.

— Megan Abbott

Novels definitely come more naturally to me. When I write short stories, it's always a fight against it expanding.

— Maggie Shipstead

Novels are . . . an unsurpassed form to understand people.

— Henning Mankell

The novel remains a very special form for me.

— Howard Gordon

For me, the novel is experience illumined by imagination.

— Ellen Glasgow

In fact, with each of my novels I have been surprised by something that happens that I had not thought of beforehand.

— Julie Klassen

I think most novelists I know, certainly including me, feel the novels choose them rather than vice-versa.

— Steve Erickson

I don't know how everyone writes a novel; that sounds exhausting.

— Raphael Bob-Waksberg

My novels come from within me; they are things I feel I want to do.

— Roddy Doyle

For me, the process of writing a novel happens mostly in your head before you actually start writing.

— Dan Chaon

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