Books Quote by Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Writing a novel is not at all like riding a bike. Writing a novel is like having to redesign a bike, based on laws…

— Daniel Alarcon

One of the humbling things about having written more than one novel is the sense that every time you begin, that new empty page…

— John Irving

I can only write one novel at a time. The author of the Perry Mason novels, Erle Stanley Gardner, often worked on four novels…

— James Thayer

I've never been that person who thought that because I've written one novel, I should write another and another. It's only when there was…

— Arundhati Roy

Only one novel is a novel: that is a successful novel.

— William Golding

I am a big believer in the fact that all authors really write only one book.

— Scott Turow

Today, there are more opportunities for writers in terms of access to larger success, but it's more difficult to publish a literary novel in…

— James Lee Burke

A man can write one book that can be great, but this doesn't make him a great writer-just the writer of a great book.…

— Anthony Burgess

I don't write the same book over and over - I think if I did that, I would stop writing. I couldn't write a…

— Jodi Picoult

I've written only two novels, but they're both long ones, and they each took a decade to write.

— Donna Tartt

If one book's done this well, you want to write another one that does just as well. There's that horror of the second novel…

— Mark Haddon

If I had the luxury of working as a full time writer, I think you would see novels appearing on a much more regular,…

— John Scott