Books Quote by Marianne Cushing

Holy cow - everything about writing a novel is hard for me.

— Laura van den Berg

“I don't want to write soft, easy fiction; I want to write fiction that challenges.”

— Brian A. McBride

“Book-writing is always much easier in other people's lives.”

— Tibor Fischer

“Writing may be a solitary endeavor, but publishing is not.”

— Natasha Yim

“Anybody can write a book. But writing it well and making it sell - that's the hard part.”

— Jay Taylor

“Writing a novel is just like life ... it's only in the doing of it that I find out what works.”

— Angela Young

“Publication is a marathon, not a sprint. Writing the book is only the start.”

— Jo Linsdell

“writing a novel is extremely complicated. So complicated, in fact, that you cannot possibly hold your entire novel in your head all at once.…

— Nathan Bransford

“Writing novels allows the novelist to spend much of his time in a fictional world, which is really the only or at least the…

— Javier Marías

“The most difficult thing about writing; is writing the first line.”

— Amit Kalantri

The hardest piece of nonfiction I ever wrote isn't anywhere close to the easiest piece of fiction I never wrote.

— Ann Patchett

“Being a writer is a more difficult job than people imagine.”

— Sara Sheridan