Books Quote by Jyoti Arora

The hard part about writing a novel is finishing it.

— Ernest Hemingway

“To write a novel, you begin with what you can see and then you add what came before and what came after. ...You must…

— Thomas Harris

“writing a novel is extremely complicated. So complicated, in fact, that you cannot possibly hold your entire novel in your head all at once.…

— Nathan Bransford

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

Part of the work of writing a novel is to uncover the symmetries or connections that make it whole, which might not reveal itself…

— Nicole Krauss

“To write a novel, you begin with what you can see and then you add what came before and what came after.”

— Thomas Harris

A novel, in the end, is a container, a shape which you are trying to pour your story into.

— Helen Dunmore

“Writing is like baking cupcakes, you're trying to make something from the raw. Like with cupcakes it's flour and eggs and stuff, and with…

— Emma Shortt

“Writing a novel is just like life ... it's only in the doing of it that I find out what works.”

— Angela Young

“Writing a book is like quilting. Once you start, keep on until it's finished.”

— Reba Birmingham

“Every writer in this book has a slightly different process, but they all start with the same thing: a blank page.”

— Timothy Ferriss

“The whole point is that writing has a pattern and life hasn't. Life is so untidy. Art is so short and life so long.…

— Elizabeth Taylor