Books Quote by Laura van den Berg

Writing a novel is a very hard thing to do because it covers so long a space of time, and if you get discouraged…

— Maxwell Perkins

Writing a graphic novel is hard. It feels closer to a screen play than to a novel.

— Janet Evanovich

Beginning a novel is always hard. It feels like going nowhere. I always have to write at least 100 pages that go into the…

— Barbara Kingsolver

“Ideas are cheap. Writing them into a freakin' 90k word novel is the hard part.”

— Ellie Ann

In a novel, it's hard to keep track of everybody

— Irwin Shaw

Seven years into writing a novel, I started to lose my mind. My thirty-seventh birthday had just come and gone, the end of 2008…

— Akhil Sharma

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

Writing one's first novel, getting it sold, and shepherding it through the labyrinths of editing, production, marketing, journalism, and social media is an arduous…

— Paul Di Filippo

The hard part about writing a novel is finishing it.

— Ernest Hemingway

Then I decided I would spend the summer writing a novel. That would fix a lot of people.

— Sylvia Plath

One of the most difficult things in writing a novel or anything at all is to choose the point of view from which it's…

— Truman Capote

Having been an editor for more than a decade, I thought I had a good idea of how much work was involved in writing…

— Julie Klassen