Awake Quote by Haruki Murakami

For me, writing a novel is more like digging a well than climbing a mountain - some heroic thing where I set out to…

— Mohsin Hamid

I've always wanted to write a novel. It's overwhelming and daunting, and it's one of those things that every writer fantasizes about doing.

— Howard Gordon

The good thing about writing books is that you can dream while you are awake. If it’s a real dream, you cannot control it.…

— Haruki Murakami

For me,the greater part of writing is daydreaming, dreaming the dream of my story until it hatches out-the writing down of it I always…

— Michael Morpurgo

You have to dream intentionally. Most people dream a dream when they are asleep. But to be a writer, you have to dream while…

— Haruki Murakami

For me, writing a novel is like solving a puzzle. But I don't intend my novels as puzzles. I intend them as invitations to…

— Mohsin Hamid

The truth about being a writer is you do not choose the stories you tell, but stories choose you. You do not choose, therefore,…

— Rosa Montero

I do write a lot of prose. It's not disciplined enough yet that it's actually become stories, or short stories. The idea of writing…

— PJ Harvey

I've found that writing novels is an all-absorbing experience - both physical and mental - and I have to do it every day in…

— Paul Auster

I quickly realised that it is difficult to get started when writing a novel. You have this dream of what you want to create,…

— Patrick Modiano

A novel is what you dream in your night sleep. A novel is not waking thoughts although it is written and thought with waking…

— Gertrude Stein

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