Books Quote by Don Marquis

I wasted a lot of years working on my writing and very grandly saying, 'And now... My Novel!,' which would soon be reduced to…

— George Saunders

My favorite part of writing a book is thinking up the ideas, and that can start a long time before I actually sit down…

— Anthony Horowitz

Writing's funny, it's like walking down a hall in the dark looking for the light switch, and suddenly you find it, flip it on,…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

Anybody can write a three-volume novel. It merely requires a complete ignorance of both life and literature.

— Oscar Wilde

I write short stories when a little idea occurs to me, that I know isn't a part of a novel that will stand by…

— Roddy Doyle

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

— Raphael Bob-Waksberg

I have this prejudice that trilogies are long, three-volume novels.

— William Gibson

I like to try to do a little work before I do anything in the morning, even if it's a paragraph.

— Sloane Crosley

My novels are all ideas.

— Michel Houellebecq

For me, a paragraph in a novel is a bit like a line in a poem. It has its own shape, its own music,…

— Paul Auster

If you have one strong idea, you can't help repeating it and embroidering it. Sometimes I think that authors should write one novel and…

— John P. Marquand

I love the idea of literature as a room or series of rooms that allow you to be present as it slowly unfolds itself…

— Gregory Allen Howard