Areas Quote by Doris Lessing

I am suspicious of writers who say their work is original and influenced by nobody. If it is, it is probably uninteresting. The biggest…

— Teju Cole

“Every novel is brand-new. It’s never been written before in the history of the world. At the same time, it’s merely the latest in…

— Thomas C. Foster

“For a writer it's a genuinely interesting and hopefully profitable era that makes a variety of books available to a variety of readers, extending…

— Sara Sheridan

“Behind every novel is a greater story of how it came to be published.”

— T.L. Rese

“novel’s success and”

— Sara Alexi

To be a classic, a novel should be original.

— Ruth Rendell

“Writing novels allows you to create your own world.”

— Norman Shabel

“Writing novels allows the novelist to spend much of his time in a fictional world, which is really the only or at least the…

— Javier Marías

“Much of the excitement of a new novel lies in the repudiation of the one written before.”

— Zadie Smith

“People think because a novel's invented, it isn't true. Exactly the reverse is the case. Because a novel's invented, it is true. Biography and…

— Anthony Powell

“The fact is that each writer creates his own precursors.”

— jorge luis borges

To be shockingly original with your first novel, you don’t have to discover a new technique: Simply write about people as they are and…

— John Braine