Books Quote by Maxwell Perkins

If you are not discouraged about your writing on a regular basis, you may not be trying hard enough. Any challenging pursuit will encounter…

— Maxwell Perkins

Writing a novel that works is an extremely difficult thing to do. It requires a level of skill and dedication that always surprises me.

— Bret Easton Ellis

The process of writing a novel is like taking a journey by boat. You have to continually set yourself on course. If you get…

— Walter Mosley

People without hope not only don’t write novels, but what is more to the point, they don’t read them. They don’t take long looks…

— Flannery O'Connor

Writing is a strange and solitary activity. There are dispiriting times when you start working on the first few pages of a novel. Every…

— Patrick Modiano

I think the most important thing is just to write. It sounds so simple, but sometimes it's not. You can get so distracted -…

— Sarah Dessen

My own feeling is that the only possible reason for engaging in the hard labor of writing a novel, is that one is bothered…

— May Sarton

Don't force yourself to write. Some people can write a novel in a few months, whereas for others it can take over a year.…

— Cecelia Ahern

I just realized quite early on that I'm not going to be the type who can write a novel every two years. I think…

— Zadie Smith

Yes. To write a novel is to risk my sanity. The deeper I get into the suffering and conflict of the characters, into the…

— Anne Rice

Writing a novel is a huge adventure; when it's going well it's more fun than fun. When it stutters to a halt put it…

— Deborah Moggach

I'm not reading any novels right now, though not for lack of trying. Unless they're really good, my attention in most novels tends to…

— Matthew Healy