Books Quote by Jim Woodring

I've always wanted to write a novel. It's overwhelming and daunting, and it's one of those things that every writer fantasizes about doing.

— Howard Gordon

I wasn't sitting around years ago thinking, 'I really want to write a novel.

— Amy Waldman

To make it interesting and worth doing, writing a novel has to be a leap into the unknown. I have to be unsure if…

— Charles Palliser

The only way to write a novel is to proceed as if you had all the time in the world.

— Philip Gerard

I have two ideas for novels at the moment, neither of them all that conventional, but I'm not ready to choose between them yet,…

— Jonathan Coe

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

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

The best way to write a novel is to do it behind your own back.

— China Mieville

I quickly realised that it is difficult to get started when writing a novel. You have this dream of what you want to create,…

— Patrick Modiano

The fiction I tend to like is nothing like my own work. I like the kind of writing that shows me things I don't…

— Jim Woodring

I'm always telling myself as I write that I'm not really writing a novel; I'm just going to fool around with a character or…

— Robert Cormier

I'm not a literary writer who is wedded to notions of realism and fiction. I believe that you can write anything if you can…

— Christopher Rice