Books Quote by Joyce Carol Oates

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

With the novels, I try to write a few pages a day - it doesn't sound much, but it can be difficult if I'm…

— Catherine Fisher

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

At the outset, my notion of being a writer was that you would have moments of inspiration and moments of frustration, when you'd crumple…

— Tom Rachman

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

“Writing is a form of intense thinking that takes a person on a journey into previously uncharted territory of the writer’s mind.”

— Kilroy J. Oldster

In the end I write the novels I need to write when I need to write them.

— Steve Erickson

I believe there are two ways of writing novels. One is mine, making a sort of musical comedy without music and ignoring real life…

— P. G. Wodehouse

Writing [for the novelist] is not an activity, but a condition. That is why one simply can't resume the work when one has a…

— Robert Musil

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

The impulse to write a novel comes from a momentary unified vision of life.

— Angus Wilson

The process of writing a novel is like taking a journey by boat. You have to continually set yourself on course. If you get…

— Walter Mosley