Books Quote by Jonathan Ames

I think writing a poem is like being a greyhound. Writing a novel is like being a mule. You go up one long row,…

— Ron Rash

I enjoy both TV writing and novel writing, and they are very similar. The goal is to entertain and amuse the audience, and I…

— Jonathan Ames

I seem always to have two or three novels going at once. It takes me a long time to finish one.

— Michael Helm

“You have to try even if it’s hard and you think you can never do it and you just want to scream and hide”

— Kathryn Erskine

Having been an editor for more than a decade, I thought I had a good idea of how much work was involved in writing…

— Julie Klassen

“There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are. —W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM”

— Wendy Wax

Don't start writing your novel until you know your characters very, very well. What they'd do if they saw somebody shoplifting. What they were…

— Deborah Moggach

Seven years into writing a novel, I started to lose my mind. My thirty-seventh birthday had just come and gone, the end of 2008…

— Akhil Sharma

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

Writing one's first novel, getting it sold, and shepherding it through the labyrinths of editing, production, marketing, journalism, and social media is an arduous…

— Paul Di Filippo

The hard part about writing a novel is finishing it.

— Ernest Hemingway

When you're writing a novel, you spend four years sitting in your basement and a year waiting for the book to come out and…

— John Green