Ass Quote by John Dufresne

As a writer, you live in such isolation. It's hard to imagine your book has a life beyond you.

— Ann Brashares

Novels give you the opportunity to create a whole world. Because you create people, you make them talk... You decide who they are, whether…

— Gioconda Belli

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

— Philip Gerard

Life is painful and disappointing. It is useless, therefore, to write new realistic novels. We generally know where we stand in relation to reality…

— Michel Houellebecq

Writing a book is like an unknown abyss, every time. Every book is different. Contrary to what unpublished writers think, it's horrible to have…

— Ethan Canin

Writing a novel is like knocking on a door that will never open. You are so desperate to get in, you will say or…

— Samantha Shannon

You're on your own with the book. And while you are writing fiction, you're spending all this time with people who don't actually exist,…

— Irvine Welsh

To me, novels are a trip of discovery, and you discover things that you don't know and you assume that many of your readers…

— Tom Wolfe

Novels are so interior and idiosyncratic and such a solitary process.

— Megan Abbott

These are all novels, all about people that never existed, the people that read them it makes them unhappy with their own lives. Makes…

— Ray Bradbury

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 begin, not on the page, but in meditation and day-dreaming - In thinking, not writing.

— Joyce Carol Oates