Books Quote by Katie Roiphe

I binge write. I think it's because I started seriously writing by participating in National Novel Writing Month, an online-based challenge to write 50,000…

— Erin Morgenstern

Introduce your main characters and themes in the first third of your novel. If you are writing a plot-driven genre novel make sure all…

— Michael Moorcock

NaNo[ National Novel Writing Month] is an awesome opportunity to stretch your writing muscles and gives you permission to write in a way you…

— Michelle J. Howard

“Take care of your costume and your confidence will take care of itself.”

— Amit Kalantri

“Laura thought Bell would have a few things to say to Pynchon. And Laura had a few things to say to Bell, like, How…

— L.L. Barkat

I think the novel form chose me. I was a writer before I became a criminal... my first instinct was to write.

— Gregory David Roberts

I want to write novels. I want to write stories. I want to do the stuff that I became a writer to do.

— Salman Rushdie

No one will ever write a fantasy novel better than The Hobbit.

— Anonymous

At the outset, my notion of being a writer was that you would have moments of inspiration and moments of frustration, when you'd crumple…

— Tom Rachman

If writing novels is like planting a forest, then writing short stories is more like planting a garden.

— Haruki Murakami

I think of novels as houses. You live in them over the course of a long period, both as a reader and as a…

— Nicole Krauss

I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,…

— Anna Quindlen