Books Quote by Meg Wolitzer

And the nice thing about writing a novel is you take your time, you sit with the character sometimes nine years, you look very…

— Sandra Cisneros

When I write, I get glimpses into future novels.

— Patricia Briggs

Writing a novel, in an unplanned and unpredictable way, makes you engaged; it takes you into yourself, and it becomes something between you and…

— David Bezmozgis

In my experience, a novel is the culmination of various thoughts and impressions collected over time, until something comes along to give them a…

— J. Courtney Sullivan

To me, novels are a trip of discovery, and you discover things that you don't know and you assume that many of your readers…

— Tom Wolfe

I try to write about things, places, events, and phenomena I know about personally. That helps make the novels more genuine.

— Lincoln Child

I always wanted to write novels, even before I had read a lot of novels or had a very good idea of what they…

— Elif Batuman

I've always wanted to write a novel. It's overwhelming and daunting, and it's one of those things that every writer fantasizes about doing.

— Howard Gordon

When I'm writing a book, I draw from my immediate experience, and my books are therefore almost a snapshot of where I am at…

— Maria Semple

I write the novels that are possible for me to write, not that ones I think will come across in a certain light.

— Rachel Kushner

I think a novel has to be about where you are at a given moment in time. I think it really needs to represent…

— Maria Semple

I think that novels are one of the best means that we have to communicate both with the past and with the future.

— Emily Barton