Always Quote by Jill McCorkle

In the end I write the novels I need to write when I need to write them.

— Steve Erickson

I write the novels that are possible for me to write, not that ones I think will come across in a certain light.

— Rachel Kushner

Novels are longer than life.

— Natalie Clifford Barney

I won't read novels while writing novels.

— Wally Lamb

Most novels, I find, are three times longer than they need to be. Very little happens, and I don't want to waste my time…

— Chuck Palahniuk

“Novels can tell us so much about life. They have the power to enrich our own lives in so many different ways. They're not…

— Victoria Connelly

“This life is short, and you never know how many chapters you have left in your novel,”

— Brittainy C. Cherry

“writing a novel is extremely complicated. So complicated, in fact, that you cannot possibly hold your entire novel in your head all at once.…

— Nathan Bransford

Nearly all novels are too long.

— Rose Macaulay

“If living is to progress, if you are lucky, from foolishness to wisdom, then to write novels is to broadcast the various stages of…

— Jane Smiley

“You never finish writing a novel, you eventually abandon it.”

— Tom Winton

“Eventually, we come to love certain novels because we have expended so much imaginative labor on them. This is why we hang on to…

— Orhan Pamuk