Agonizing Quote by Jonathan Tropper

Writing a novel isn't like building a brick wall. You don't figure out how to do it, and then it gets easier each time…

— Kate DiCamillo

Novel writing, like so many things in life, is an iterative process. You come at it again and again, working at it like you…

— Kameron Hurley

In my experience, writing a novel tends to create its own structure, its own demands, its own language, its own ending.

— Don DeLillo

Sometimes people write novels and they just be so wordy and so self-absorbed.

— Kanye West

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

Writing a novel is like an amusement park or a museum or a city. You go into that place and you have certain experiences…

— Mohsin Hamid

The act of writing is a way of tricking yourself into revealing something that you would never consciously put into the world. Sometimes I'm…

— Chuck Palahniuk

The lovely thing about writing is, well, two things. One, writing fiction allows us to bring an order to our lives that doesn't exist…

— Octavia E. Butler

“It is the form that allows a writer the greatest opportunity to explore human experience...For that reason, reading a novel is potentially a significant…

— Don DeLillo

Novel-writing is a highly skilled and laborious trade. One does not just sit behind a screen jotting down other people's conversation. One has for…

— Evelyn Waugh

The only difficulty is to know what bits to choose and what to leave out. Novel-writing is not creation, it is selection.

— Winifred Holtby

All writing is an act of self-exploration. Even a grocery list says something about you; how much more does a novel say?

— Steven Saylor