Being silly Quote by Kelly Link

I've always wanted to write a novel. It's overwhelming and daunting, and it's one of those things that every writer fantasizes about doing.

— Howard Gordon

I never, ever decided that I had to write a novel because, to me, there's no such decision that ought to be made. It's…

— Arundhati Roy

I've always wanted to write a book. And it turned out that it was more about finding a story that I felt I was…

— Hank Green

I never really wanted to write a book in the first place. Never intended to do such. I feel like I wasted a lot…

— Scarface

I write the novels that are possible for me to write, not that ones I think will come across in a certain light.

— Rachel Kushner

For me, writing a novel is like solving a puzzle. But I don't intend my novels as puzzles. I intend them as invitations to…

— Mohsin Hamid

Eventually, I realised that I wanted to try to create something myself, and that's what writing novels is. Not because I wanted to put…

— Chris Pavone

I always wanted to write novels, even before I had read a lot of novels or had a very good idea of what they…

— Elif Batuman

I'm always telling myself as I write that I'm not really writing a novel; I'm just going to fool around with a character or…

— Robert Cormier

To make it interesting and worth doing, writing a novel has to be a leap into the unknown. I have to be unsure if…

— Charles Palliser

I don't think I have a very novelistic brain. I like to read, but I don't know if I could ever write a novel.

— Jacob Anderson

I always wanted to write. While I was on a long surf trip, supporting myself with various day jobs, I was working hard on…

— William Finnegan