Books Quote by James M. Cain

When it’s too good, you do it over again. Too good is too easy. If it’s too easy you have to worry. If you’re…

— James M. Cain

Writing a novel is like heading out over the open sea in a small boat. It helps, if you have a plan and a…

— John Gardner

Writing a novel is an incredibly free experience. One puts one's self in a narrative mode. You can go off in any direction -…

— David Mamet

Writing a novel is like building a wall brick by brick; only amateurs believe in inspiration.

— Frank Yerby

“Writing novels allows you to create your own world.”

— Norman Shabel

Writing a novel isn't like building a brick wall. You don't figure out how to do it, and then it gets easier each time…

— Kate DiCamillo

You do not write a novel for praise, or thinking of your audience. You write for yourself; you work out between you and your…

— Bret Easton Ellis

I don't know how everyone writes a novel; that sounds exhausting.

— Raphael Bob-Waksberg

In general, I think every novel is a political novel, in that every novel is an argument about how the world works, who has…

— Micah Perks

Writing a novel that works is an extremely difficult thing to do. It requires a level of skill and dedication that always surprises me.

— Bret Easton Ellis

In a democracy in the 20th and 21st century, if you can't base your fiction upon ordinary people and the issues that engage them,…

— John Updike

“Writing a novel is just like life ... it's only in the doing of it that I find out what works.”

— Angela Young