Appearing Quote by John Scott

I don't think I would do better books if I wrote full time. I write for amateurish reasons.

— Upamanyu Chatterjee

Writing novels takes up about 100% of my available working time.

— Charles Stross

I think, as a writer, you spend most of your time working on the book alone.

— Jenny Han

I think of novels as houses. You live in them over the course of a long period, both as a reader and as a…

— Nicole Krauss

I couldn't think about novels at all. It seemed the only writing that was appropriate to that horrendous event was journalism, reportage. And, in…

— Ian Mcewan

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

My novels are very much the same, as I think many people's novels are.

— Ann Patchett

Novels definitely come more naturally to me. When I write short stories, it's always a fight against it expanding.

— Maggie Shipstead

I believe that every writer evolves with every successive novel. I view myself as work-in-progress.

— Ashwin Sanghi

I'm not reading any novels right now, though not for lack of trying. Unless they're really good, my attention in most novels tends to…

— Matthew Healy

I don't very often read novels.

— Sidney Poitier

If writers stuck to firsthand experience, novels would be pretty limited.

— Stef Penney