Books Quote by Jennifer Gilmore

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

I always wanted to write novels, even before I had read a lot of novels or had a very good idea of what they…

— Elif Batuman

When I first started, my novels were set in the far future.

— Robert J. Sawyer

Wrote my first "novel" when I was six. Studied a bit in college, but then pursued history... But when I started writing professionally, it…

— David B. Coe

I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it.

— Toni Morrison

One good reason for writing novels based on your life is that you have something to read in old age when you've forgotten what…

— Nina Bawden

My first novel, 'John Crow's Devil,' freed me up to write about the past, and 'The Book of Night Women' freed me up to…

— Marlon James

I had, like any other young novelist, started out by believing the difficult thing was to get published and that, once you managed that,…

— Mordecai Richler

For years and years I thought that stories were just practice, till I got time to write a novel,

— Alice Munro

I had written a book. For various reasons, the publishing industry had decided that my book was going to be 'important.' The novel had…

— Akhil Sharma

Fiction offered me tools that allowed me to approach a wider variety of issues than the events of my own life would.

— Phil Klay

I'm always determined that as a novelist I'm going to go out there and research my characters very thoroughly before I start writing.

— Chris Cleave