Appropriate Quote by Ian Mcewan

If I had the luxury of working as a full time writer, I think you would see novels appearing on a much more regular,…

— John Scott

Writing a novel is a terrible experience, during which the hair often falls out and the teeth decay. I'm always irritated by people who…

— Flannery O'Connor

I think the path to becoming a writer has become more through the novel. It's easier to get a novel published than a book…

— Jess Walter

I always thought that I could write a novel. In my case, it was misguided. I do believe that the best nonfiction is not…

— Ron Rosenbaum

Writing fiction is for me a fraught business, an occasion of daily dread for at least the first half of the novel, and sometimes…

— Joan Didion

My job, in general, is nonfiction, so writing fiction was liberating. If you can't find the answer to something, you just make it up!

— Jake Tapper

God gets the great stories. Novelists must make do with more mundane fictions.

— Richard Flanagan

I'm not reading any novels right now, though not for lack of trying. Unless they're really good, my attention in most novels tends to…

— Matthew Healy

I find that nonfiction writers are the likeliest to turn out interesting novels.

— Michael Korda

'Oscar Wao' for example cohered in a period of terrible distress. All the novels that I wanted to write were not happening.

— Junot Diaz

I think the deepest thing is that many fiction writers tell stories but are not elegant writers. But, we're not writing journalism when we're…

— Edward Hirsch

Writing novels is an essentially amateur activity.

— Jane Smiley