Am Quote by Haruki Murakami

Every book changes my writing because I'm always trying to do something I didn't do before. I try to do what's hard for me,…

— Sandra Cisneros

I'm always working on my next novel, even when I'm not.

— George Pelecanos

When I am writing novels I don't read a lot of novels so I try to catch up in-between.

— Salman Rushdie

Writing is a strange and solitary activity. There are dispiriting times when you start working on the first few pages of a novel. Every…

— Patrick Modiano

When I start getting close to the end of a novel, something registers in the back of my mind for the next novel, so…

— Richard Russo

I had reached a point in my career in which I was ready to try something new in my writing, and the idea of…

— E. O. Wilson

You have to wait for your mind to catch up with whatever it is it’s working on; then you can write a novel.

— James M. Cain

I usually have more than one thing I'm working on at once - I've been working on three different novels. When I get stuck…

— Dan Chaon

Whenever I write a novel, most of the time it starts with barest slip of an idea.

— Elizabeth Berg

The process of writing a novel is like taking a journey by boat. You have to continually set yourself on course. If you get…

— Walter Mosley

In a novel, you can always go back and make it look like you knew what you were doing all along before the thing…

— Neil Gaiman

I get a lot of energy from making things up, which is why I feel I'm a novelist.

— Hisham Matar