Aspect Quote by Gish Jen

Novels are one of the few remaining areas of narrative storytelling where one person does almost all of the creative heavy lifting.

— Charles Stross

Novels definitely come more naturally to me. When I write short stories, it's always a fight against it expanding.

— Maggie Shipstead

I believe there are two ways of writing novels. One is mine, making a sort of musical comedy without music and ignoring real life…

— P. G. Wodehouse

A novel compared to film writing can allow the author to be more indulgent, and that extends to the characters and the story being…

— Kanika Dhillon

Novels are nothing but evolution, but there does come a point when that stops, and the story is sealed within the pages of the…

— Sarah Waters

The way that I write novels in particular is I don't usually outline; I just write. Part of the fun is discovering what's happening…

— John Scalzi

“It is the form that allows a writer the greatest opportunity to explore human experience...For that reason, reading a novel is potentially a significant…

— Don DeLillo

Half the fun of writing a novel is finding out from other people later on what you actually meant.

— Iain Banks

I find that a lot of my best character stuff and ideas come unwittingly from novels. In scripts, it's a lot about the outward…

— Alison Pill

When you're writing a novel, you're still telling a story. But you're telling it very differently. It's a craft like anything else.

— Howard Gordon

With a novel, you have to have a story. It's much more important to have it matter to the reader what happens to people,…

— Dave Barry

As much fun as it is to read a book, writing a book is one level deeper than that.

— Donna Tartt