Books Quote by Dennis Cooper

I've always relied on producing more material than I need. With each of my published novels I've written around four times the amount of…

— Lauren Groff

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

Novels are almost like music or poetry - they just come to me in simple sentences, whereas I think my pieces get more and…

— Joan Didion

In the course of writing a book I'll produce loads of pieces of paper to help the novel itself. Diagrams, charts, family trees. And…

— Maggie O'Farrell

I seem always to have two or three novels going at once. It takes me a long time to finish one.

— Michael Helm

Novels, in my experience, are slow in coming, and once I've begun them I know I have years rather than months of work ahead…

— Graham Swift

I'm a novelist, that's how I make my livelihood, and I concentrate on the novels.

— David Mitchell

I really strive to bring something new to each book. I don't want to write the same book over and over again.

— Robert Crais

I have a lot of stuff that I never published because I always had a sense that novels were not finally going to be…

— William Monahan

I usually have more than one thing I'm working on at once - I've been working on three different novels. When I get stuck…

— Dan Chaon

My novels are very much the same, as I think many people's novels are.

— Ann Patchett

But at the same time, I have trouble keeping things out of books, which is why I don't write short stories because they turn…

— Jonathan Coe