Books Quote by Mohsin Hamid

For me, writing a novel is like having a dream. Writing a novel lets me intentionally dream while I'm still awake. I can continue…

— Haruki Murakami

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

To make it interesting and worth doing, writing a novel has to be a leap into the unknown. I have to be unsure if…

— Charles Palliser

For me, writing a novel is more like digging a well than climbing a mountain - some heroic thing where I set out to…

— Mohsin Hamid

I do write a lot of prose. It's not disciplined enough yet that it's actually become stories, or short stories. The idea of writing…

— PJ Harvey

I believe there are two ways of writing novels. One is mine, making a sort of musical comedy without music and ignoring real life…

— P. G. Wodehouse

I've found that writing novels is an all-absorbing experience - both physical and mental - and I have to do it every day in…

— Paul Auster

When I want to read a novel, I write one.

— Benjamin Disraeli

Writing a novel is always complicated, it's not like you snap your fingers and go, 'Ah, I know what I'll write'. For me, a…

— Reif Larsen

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'm always telling myself as I write that I'm not really writing a novel; I'm just going to fool around with a character or…

— Robert Cormier

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