Books Quote by Julianna Baggott

As a writer, my main objective is to tell the story urgently - as if whispering it into one ear - and to know…

— Julianna Baggott

You can throw a novel into focus with one overheard line.

— Joan Didion

You can't really write until the characters kind of show up one day and tell you what they're going to say. You start to…

— Chris Terrio

I quickly realised that it is difficult to get started when writing a novel. You have this dream of what you want to create,…

— Patrick Modiano

Each story tells me how to write it, but not the one afterwards.

— Eudora Welty

To write a novel is to embark on a quest that is very romantic. People have visions, and the next step is to execute…

— Joyce Carol Oates

Before you can write a novel you have to have a number of ideas that come together. One idea is not enough.

— Joyce Carol Oates

Writing a novel is always complicated, it's not like you snap your fingers and go, 'Ah, I know what I'll write'. For me, a…

— Reif Larsen

If you have one strong idea, you can't help repeating it and embroidering it. Sometimes I think that authors should write one novel and…

— John P. Marquand

Writing's funny, it's like walking down a hall in the dark looking for the light switch, and suddenly you find it, flip it on,…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

The best way to write a novel is to do it behind your own back.

— China Mieville

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