Books Quote by Meg Wolitzer

I believe a novel should be as complicated and involved as you're capable of making it.

— John Irving

It takes a lot of energy and a lot of neurosis to write a novel. If you were really sensible, you'd do something else.

— Lawrence Durrell

Ideas can come while reading a good novel.

— Ben van Berkel

Before you can write a novel you have to have a number of ideas that come together. One idea is not enough.

— Joyce Carol Oates

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

— Elizabeth Berg

My imagination doesn't require anything more of the book than to provide a framework within which it can wander.

— Alphonse Daudet

If you have one strong idea, you can't help repeating it and embroidering it. Sometimes I think that authors should write one novel and…

— John P. Marquand

This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.

— Dorothy Parker

Furthermore, even if ideas were gettable - say, stacked in a secluded cave like the Dead Sea scrolls - I wouldn't go there. An…

— Ron Rash

The idea that I'm going to have to sit down to write some fiction where I'm going to have to think of a plot…

— Tracey Emin

For me, a novel is always the result of my attempt to impose myself on raw circumstances. It is a concrete form of lived…

— Rachel Cusk

My experience is that an original and compelling idea for a novel is a rare thing.

— James Thayer