Books Quote by Jennifer Egan

My first attempt at writing was very unstructured and formless, with shifting points of view. I was trying to understand how long form might…

— Alex Garland

Life begins at 40. I could attempt writing. Life is taking me into different directions.

— Pooja Bhatt

“A poor attempt at writing is better than no attempt at all.”

— Ksenia Anske

The first book was my first attempt at writing full-length prose.

— Neil Simon

Writing one's first novel, getting it sold, and shepherding it through the labyrinths of editing, production, marketing, journalism, and social media is an arduous…

— Paul Di Filippo

The hard part about writing a novel is finishing it.

— Ernest Hemingway

Then I decided I would spend the summer writing a novel. That would fix a lot of people.

— Sylvia Plath

“I'm going to write a novel and get it published. I'm going to do it because writing a novel is worthwhile and because I…

— Randy Ingermanson

When I was writing my first novel, 'Where the Line Bleeds,' which had young black men as its main characters, I was very invested…

— Jesmyn Ward

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

Having been an editor for more than a decade, I thought I had a good idea of how much work was involved in writing…

— Julie Klassen

After 20 years of writing academic prose and lectures, it seems very familiar and straightforward to me. Writing a novel for the first time,…

— Deborah Harkness