Abstract Quote by Dia Mirza

When I am occupied with a work that requires continuity - a novel, for example - I write every day.

— Jose Saramago

No, I can't write a novel. I don't have a story.

— Harry Enfield

Don’t try to write a novel. Write short stories and then figure out how to connect them.

— Ray Bradbury

Early on, I tried fiction, but I wasn't very good at it. I wrote a very bad novel that is thankfully sitting in a…

— David Grann

For years, I felt I was a novelist, but now I know I can write short fiction.

— Jill McCorkle

I still write the occasional short story, and poked at a novel once, but it's just not what I want to do.

— George Murray

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

I write the novels that are possible for me to write, not that ones I think will come across in a certain light.

— Rachel Kushner

Writing a novel that works is an extremely difficult thing to do. It requires a level of skill and dedication that always surprises me.

— Bret Easton Ellis

I would recommend the short story form, which is a lot harder to write since you have to be so careful with words, until…

— Anne McCaffrey

You have to wait for your mind to catch up with whatever it is it’s working on; then you can write a novel.

— James M. Cain

I can write for a long time on one novel and not get tired.

— Judith Guest