Better way Quote by Heinrich Mann

Before you can write a novel you have to have a number of ideas that come together. One idea is not enough.

— Joyce Carol Oates

Ideas can come while reading a good novel.

— Ben van Berkel

Somehow, you can achieve a directness in the novel that you can't get anywhere else.

— Chad Harbach

If you have one strong idea, you can't help repeating it and embroidering it. Sometimes I think that authors should write one novel and…

— John P. Marquand

I believe a novel should be as complicated and involved as you're capable of making it.

— John Irving

You can't take a story and just stretch it out - that does not a novel make.

— David Means

Writing a novel is like building a wall brick by brick; only amateurs believe in inspiration.

— Frank Yerby

For me, a novel relying too heavily on a single idea might be a dry, deadly thing unless it possesses an animating force.

— Meg Wolitzer

a novel is not born of a single idea. The stories I've tried to write from one idea, no matter how terrific an idea,…

— Katherine Paterson

Novels are . . . an unsurpassed form to understand people.

— Henning Mankell

I've never been able to force a novel. I always had the sense something being given to me. You can't sit around and wait…

— Margaret Laurence

Ideas become powerful only if they appear in the flesh; an idea which does not lead to action by the individual and by groups…

— Erich Fromm