Books Quote by John P. Marquand

Before you can write a novel you have to have a number of ideas that come together. One idea is not enough.

— Joyce Carol Oates

It's hard enough to make a novel a novel. I wouldn't know how to make it something else at the same time

— Matthew Specktor

Ideas can come while reading a good novel.

— Ben van Berkel

But once an idea for a novel seizes a writer...well, it’s like an inner fire that at first warms you and makes you feel…

— Dean Koontz

I believe a novel should be as complicated and involved as you're capable of making it.

— John Irving

A novel is a collision of ideas. Three or four threads may be floating around in the writer's consciousness, and at a single moment…

— Anita Shreve

The idea is not enough. And the most annoying thing for me as a writer is that people will come up to me and…

— Irvine Welsh

I am just diving into life again. I just have nothing new to offer right now as an idea for a book. I feel…

— Karan Bajaj

a novel is not born of a single idea. The stories I've tried to write from one idea, no matter how terrific an idea,…

— Katherine Paterson

Keep on the lookout for novel ideas that others have used successfully. Your idea has to be original only in its adaptation to the…

— Anonymous

In order to be a living, breathing thing, a novel has to be failed in some kind of way. Or at least that's how…

— Dana Spiotta

I feel like I have a lot of novel ideas, but they often come up while I'm already in the process of working on…

— Matt de la Pena