About Quote by Francine Prose

Trollope wrote so many novels and other works that they tend to crowd each other out.

— Jane Smiley

My first novel, 'You Must be Sisters,' was started in Pakistan. I've wrote several novels and a TV drama set or partly-set there.

— Deborah Moggach

“Superficially my war was a comfortable exercise in futility carried out in a grand Scottish hotel amongst the bridge players and swillers of easy-come-by…

— Patrick White

I wrote four novels, but then I realized that the world didn't need me to be a novelist, but the world could use me…

— David Quammen

“We are accustomed to believe that our world was created by God speaking the Word; but I ask, may it not rather be that…

— J.M. Coetzee

I'm not embarrassed about the novels I wrote when I was younger, but I couldn't write them today because of my religion.

— Louise Mensch

“I feel like shredded paper thrown to the wind, each poet took a piece of me and wrote a word or phrase...”

— Luis Alexandre Ribeiro Branco

I actually started trying to be a professional writer with novels, and I wrote two that exist and are around... kind of. But they…

— Charles Soule

Of the first seven novels I wrote, numbers four and five were published. Numbers one, two, three, six, and seven, have never seen the…

— Sue Grafton

I wrote the word debauchery, but when I re-read it, I thought I had written douchebaggery. Both words would work...

— Anonymous

I wrote a whole novel before The Beach. Unpublishable. Junk. But, for some reason I stuck at novels and wrote a second. Still not…

— Alex Garland

“David Goodis didn’t write novels, he wrote suicide notes.”

— Ed Gorman