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The hard part about writing a novel is finishing it.

— Ernest Hemingway

I spent almost two years working on this book ['March'] before we ever had a publisher, before we ever had a title. And when…

— Andrew Aydin

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

One easy mistake to make with the first novel is to expand the short story. Some things are better as a story; you cannot…

— Yiyun Li

I think what gets you through a small writing project, is just one burst of inspiration. A book, especially a longer book, it's a…

— Alan Lightman

I think I'm succinct to the point of trying to write the two-word novel. Editing my work almost never means taking anything out but…

— Kate DiCamillo

Every page was once a blank page, just as every word that appears on it now was not always there, but instead reflects the…

— Francine Prose

I'm not the most prolific writer in the world, and, sadly, writing a novel involves a lot of effort.

— Tibor Fischer

Let's put it this way: if you are a novelist, I think you start out with a 20 word idea, and you work at…

— Eric Carle

I have never started a novel - I mean except the first, when I was starting a novel just to start a novel -…

— Joan Didion

Whenever I write a novel, most of the time it starts with barest slip of an idea.

— Elizabeth Berg

Writing a novel isn't like building a brick wall. You don't figure out how to do it, and then it gets easier each time…

— Kate DiCamillo