Back when Quote by Madeline Miller

In a novel, you can always go back and make it look like you knew what you were doing all along before the thing…

— Neil Gaiman

The way I feel about every book is this: you don't finish it, you abandon it. All of my books have in some sense…

— Russell Banks

A novel ensures that we can look before and after, take action at whatever pace we choose, read again and again, skip and go…

— William Golding

The key thing about a book is that you lose yourself in the author's world.

— Jeff Bezos

The advice I would offer to any writer is that even when you think you have revised your book to the point where you…

— Michael Korda

Position yourself to succeed by doing the other things in your life that rejuvenate you. You can create little islands of time away from…

— Jeff VanderMeer

Writing a book is like an unknown abyss, every time. Every book is different. Contrary to what unpublished writers think, it's horrible to have…

— Ethan Canin

Writing a book is a bit like going on location for a movie. You're absent from your life, your family, and your friends. You're…

— Michael Crichton

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

If I'm really rolling with a short story, I work on it everywhere and end up with a finished draft in a couple months,…

— Laura van den Berg

Well, my book is written-let it go. But if it were only to write over again there wouldn't be so many things left out.…

— Mark Twain

The best way to write a novel is to do it behind your own back.

— China Mieville