Bigs Quote by Justine Larbalestier

In my case, the long gaps between my books have got quite a lot to do with lack of confidence. A lot of the…

— Wendy Cope

This book fills a much-needed gap.

— Moses Hadas

The fiction writer in me likes gaps in stories because I can jump into that gap and try to suggest something.

— Marlon James

For a novelist, the gaps in a story are as intriguing as material that still exists.

— Sara Sheridan

When I am writing novels I don't read a lot of novels so I try to catch up in-between.

— Salman Rushdie

My novels are never truly finished, even if they're published and sitting on the shelf. While I may no longer be interested in spending…

— Jillian Medoff

I'm sure you're aware, with the time it takes to put these books together, everything can suddenly start coming out at once even though…

— Garth Ennis

I think I'm like most novelists in that my books have gotten farther and farther away from autobiography the longer I've been writing them.

— Anna Quindlen

I have found that each of my books has developed out of something I have written in a previous book. Some thought evidently unfinished.

— Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

I have a lot of novels that I haven't finished. I usually get 150 pages in and I realize it's not going anywhere. I…

— Jeffrey Eugenides

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

Most novels, I find, are three times longer than they need to be. Very little happens, and I don't want to waste my time…

— Chuck Palahniuk