Books Quote by Hugh Grant

Everything that I write comes when it wants to, out of its own need and it dictates its form. I don't say, "I am…

— Sandra Cisneros

One of the most difficult things in writing a novel or anything at all is to choose the point of view from which it's…

— Truman Capote

I'm always telling myself as I write that I'm not really writing a novel; I'm just going to fool around with a character or…

— Robert Cormier

To make it interesting and worth doing, writing a novel has to be a leap into the unknown. I have to be unsure if…

— Charles Palliser

When I want to read a novel, I write one.

— Benjamin Disraeli

I won't read novels while writing novels.

— Wally Lamb

Writing a novel is always complicated, it's not like you snap your fingers and go, 'Ah, I know what I'll write'. For me, a…

— Reif Larsen

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

You may be able to write a novel, you may not. You will never know until you have worked very hard indeed and written…

— Ngaio Marsh

I never, ever decided that I had to write a novel because, to me, there's no such decision that ought to be made. It's…

— Arundhati Roy

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 would like to write a novel, or at least try to write one, although my motives are not entirely pure. For one thing,…

— Kelly Link