Books Quote by Joyce Carol Oates

I tend to write longer narrative pieces after I've finished writing a novel - when the fiction's finished and put away, and I have…

— Dinaw Mengestu

In a novel, you can always go back and make it look like you knew what you were doing all along before the thing…

— Neil Gaiman

I usually have more than one thing I'm working on at once - I've been working on three different novels. When I get stuck…

— Dan Chaon

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

— Michael Helm

When I start getting close to the end of a novel, something registers in the back of my mind for the next novel, so…

— Richard Russo

But at the same time, I have trouble keeping things out of books, which is why I don't write short stories because they turn…

— Jonathan Coe

I usually have more than one thing I'm working on at once -- I've been working on three different novels. When I get stuck…

— Dan Chaon

For all my longer works (i.e. the novels) I write chapter outlines so I can have the pleasure of departing from them later on.

— Garth Nix

Only when you have completed a novel, or a story, can you return to the beginning and revise or rewrite.

— Joyce Carol Oates

I am not like Stephen King, who writes one book, then writes another. I finish a book and go off and... look for wrecks.…

— Clive Cussler

I have to be careful not to visit one place right after the other and write one book after the other. Because I fear…

— John Gimlette

There're no novels that I like to read so I write my own novels, and then I read them again, and it's the best…

— Willow Smith