Books Quote by Louis Sachar

With any novel that you begin, you can't foresee how difficult or easy it's going to be, and you can't really prepare yourself. You…

— Jane Smiley

I seem always to have two or three novels going at once. It takes me a long time to finish one.

— Michael Helm

It's so easy to get into the same routine. A novel every two years; perhaps, improving technique. But I'm not interested in that. I'm…

— Chinua Achebe

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

Every time I start on a new book, I am a beginner again. I doubt myself, I grow discouraged, all the work accomplished in…

— Simone de Beauvoir

I'm trying to break myself of that habit [of not writing out a first draft ] because I'm working on a couple novels and…

— Donald Ray Pollock

Every time I write a new book, I want to push myself to try something different.

— Lauren Myracle

It takes me a long time writing books. It takes me about five years to write a book, and when I'm done, the last…

— Naomi Klein

I feel like every time I start up, it's like a truck you have to get into 15th gear, so you very solely crank…

— Chad Harbach

Novels, in my experience, are slow in coming, and once I've begun them I know I have years rather than months of work ahead…

— Graham Swift

I keep telling myself I should try very hard to write a novel of about 210 pages... I don't seem to be capable of…

— Elizabeth Kostova

Usually I work out the plot before I start. This time I thought: Writers always talk about not knowing where a book is going…

— Daniel Kehlmann