Actually Quote by Kristina McMorris

I believe a novel should be as complicated and involved as you're capable of making it.

— John Irving

If I'd had more time or been a better writer, I would have tried to put the same ideas and experiences into a novel.…

— Philip Greenspun

For years and years I thought that stories were just practice, till I got time to write a novel,

— Alice Munro

You can't take a story and just stretch it out - that does not a novel make.

— David Means

I started writing 'Normal People' not knowing that anyone would read it, not knowing that anyone would read the first book, so I didn't…

— Sally Rooney

It has always been something I could do, and it may seem odd that in my case I seem to create an interesting narrative…

— Harry Mathews

Writing a novel in general is like trying to reach a mountain top you'll never quite reach - so you try again and maybe…

— Harlan Coben

I never plot out my novels in terms of the tone of the book. Hopefully, once a story is begun it reveals itself

— Alice Hoffman

I don't generally derive my stories from novels. I try to turn into film things I have felt or experienced.

— Abbas Kiarostami

Before I studied story, I was trying to write a novel, and it was terrible. It wasn't going anywhere, and I couldn't figure out…

— Donald Miller

Getting the book published and the movie made was not an easy task. But it helped. Because even though it's a difficult life to…

— Molly Bloom

Writing a novel that works is an extremely difficult thing to do. It requires a level of skill and dedication that always surprises me.

— Bret Easton Ellis