Books Quote by Nathan Englander

Before trying a novel I wrote a couple of plays.

— James Merrill

I continued writing the bad plays which fortunately nobody would produce, just as no one did me the unkindness of publishing my early novels.

— Patrick White

I have never done anything except write, but I don't possess the vocation or talents of a narrator, have no knowledge at all of…

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

I have never written a play, a story, a poem, or my one film - anything - unless something was troubling me enough, wrecking…

— Israel Horovitz

I've written fiction for as long as I can remember; it's always been my preferred form of play.

— Taiye Selasi

Fiction has always been a thorn in my side, because I've always wanted to be a writer but I can't seem to really do…

— Sufjan Stevens

Every book changes my writing because I'm always trying to do something I didn't do before. I try to do what's hard for me,…

— Sandra Cisneros

I had novels to write, so I wrote them.

— Octavia E. Butler

Yeah, I have the detail-obsessed, controlling personality of a novelist, but I somehow ended up writing plays.

— Annie Baker

I write my novels personally, desperately and non-negligently. When I write my novels, I think about my novels only, and never do other works.

— Haruki Murakami

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

'Oscar Wao' for example cohered in a period of terrible distress. All the novels that I wanted to write were not happening.

— Junot Diaz