Book Quote by Ian Fleming

I've never written a novel before, and part of the reason I haven't is I was worried about getting 50,000 words into a book…

— Ryan North

At thirty-five, having spent over twenty years running varied businesses for my family, I decided to sit down and write my first novel. I…

— Ashwin Sanghi

If you interrupt the writing of fast narrative with too much introspection and self-criticism, you will be lucky if you write 500 words a…

— Ian Fleming

Some people manage their writing by saying, 'I need to get 2,000 words written today,' others by saying, 'I will write for X hours.'…

— Ramez Naam

I had novels to write, so I wrote them.

— Octavia E. Butler

Madly, futilely, I wrote novel after novel, eight in all, that failed to find a publisher. I persisted because for me the novel was…

— William Nicholson

I spend a huge amount of time writing about the book instead of writing the actual text.

— Chris Pavone

I spend eight months outlining and researching the novel before I begin to write a single word of the prose.

— Jeffery Deaver

I was mainly in a state of nervousness while I wrote it - nervousness that it was far bigger and more complicated than anything…

— Jonathan Coe

I'm not the most prolific writer in the world, and, sadly, writing a novel involves a lot of effort.

— Tibor Fischer

When I started writing fiction, I knew how good it was immediately.

— Anonymous

I can only write one novel at a time. The author of the Perry Mason novels, Erle Stanley Gardner, often worked on four novels…

— James Thayer