Books Quote by Hilary Mantel

I can't do a linear novel. I'm just going to write what I need to write.

— Sandra Cisneros

I am a very linear thinker, so I write beginning to end. I write hundreds of pages per book that never make it into…

— Laurell K. Hamilton

I don't think I have a very novelistic brain. I like to read, but I don't know if I could ever write a novel.

— Jacob Anderson

It takes a lot of energy and a lot of neurosis to write a novel. If you were really sensible, you'd do something else.

— Lawrence Durrell

No wonder you want to be a writer. How can you not, with all that behind you? You practically are a novel already.

— Sylvia Brownrigg

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'm not the sort of writer who can walk into a party and take a look around, see who's sleeping with whom and go…

— E. L. Doctorow

It's hard for me to think of writing a novel, because it takes so long.

— Jonathan Ames

I write the novels that are possible for me to write, not that ones I think will come across in a certain light.

— Rachel Kushner

I'm a relatively disciplined writer who composes the whole book before beginning to execute and write it. Of course, you can't hold - you…

— Orhan Pamuk

If you think about writing a book, or when I did, it seems daunting, but when I began writing, it just started flowing.

— Jimmy O. Yang

As a writer, you live in such isolation. It's hard to imagine your book has a life beyond you.

— Ann Brashares