Books Quote by Harper Lee

“Yet, I still had hope. I hoped that I’d be able to manage to stay sober for just one day, and that one day,…

— Daniel D. Maurer

You may be able to write a novel, you may not. You will never know until you have worked very hard indeed and written…

— Ngaio Marsh

“To be able to write a novel you have to be willing to fall out of life for 1 year and not let anyone…

— Ksenia Anske

I certainly did not envisage making a Disney movie. The most I hoped for was to be able to pay my bills. I was…

— David Lowery

As I started to consider a career in music, I hoped for success, truthfully. I didn't imagine anything that would amass the level of…

— Tracy Chapman

I never expected any sort of success with 'Mockingbird'... I sort of hoped someone would like it enough to give me encouragement.

— Harper Lee

I didn't expect the book to sell in the first place. I was hoping for a quick and merciful death at the hands of…

— Harper Lee

I've heard Stephen King say that when you write a novel you end up revealing everything about yourself.

— Ernest Cline

I'm pretty hardcore. I stick exactly to what I'm doing. So I write a novel in one period, and then I'll write stories in…

— T.C. Boyle

“To write a novel, you begin with what you can see and then you add what came before and what came after.”

— Thomas Harris

If you get trapped in your head and out of your body during the writing process, it's very easy to make wrong turns. You…

— Soman Chainani

When people write a novel, they want to have that reach and that impact. To get it with a first novel, you can either…

— Irvine Welsh