Books Quote by Helen Dunmore

I love research, and in fact it's liberating because you have to create your own world. No one can say "I've just got back…

— Stef Penney

I enjoy the research element. There are so many stories from the past that interest me, that I want to learn more about, just…

— John Boyne

I like reading history, and actually most authors enjoy the research part because it is, after all, easier than writing.

— Ken Follett

I enjoy research as much as writing so I try to make my stories as fact-based as possible, which I think helps them seem…

— Raymond Buckland

It takes me two to three years to write a novel. A screenplay is 100 pages and takes five years.

— Nick Hornby

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

I don't assume, because I can write screenplays, that I know how to write a novel. It's a very different world. There's a craft…

— Melissa Rosenberg

“I'm going to write a novel and get it published. I'm going to do it because writing a novel is worthwhile and because I…

— Randy Ingermanson