Books Quote by James Thayer

I'm always working on my next novel, even when I'm not.

— George Pelecanos

Whenever I write a novel, most of the time it starts with barest slip of an idea.

— Elizabeth Berg

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

Whenever I write a novel, I have a strong sense that I am doing something I was unable to do before. With each new…

— Haruki Murakami

When I write, I get glimpses into future novels.

— Patricia Briggs

When I start getting close to the end of a novel, something registers in the back of my mind for the next novel, so…

— Richard Russo

Usually when I finish the draft of a book, I'm sure I'll never write another one. I'm just that tired and sick of myself.…

— Sarah Dessen

I had reached a point in my career in which I was ready to try something new in my writing, and the idea of…

— E. O. Wilson

Writers block: when I get it, it's because my subconscious spotted that I'd make a huge structural mistake in constructing a novel before my…

— Charles Stross

I thought when I started writing that I'd have a book out in four or five years, and as it became apparent that that…

— Ben Fountain

In fact, with each of my novels I have been surprised by something that happens that I had not thought of beforehand.

— Julie Klassen

I knew I wanted to write novels, but I could not finish what I started. The closer I got, the more ways I'd find…

— Steven Pressfield