Book Quote by Ned Beauman

It is just possible that the tensions in a novel of murder are the simplest and yet most complete pattern of the tensions on…

— Raymond Chandler

The concept of writing a novel and not knowing where it's going - I don't know how to do that. Novels are plot- and…

— John Irving

At the time I begin writing a novel, the last thing I want to do is follow a plot outline. To know too much…

— Elmore Leonard

I love sentences. I love characters. But most of all, perhaps, I love to work on plot, and that may be where my natural…

— Ned Beauman

Once we know the plot and its surprises, we can appreciate a book's artistry without the usual confusion and sap flow of emotion, content…

— Michael Dirda

The first person who, having enclosed a plot of land, took it into his head to say this is mine and found people simple…

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

One of the most difficult things in writing a novel or anything at all is to choose the point of view from which it's…

— Truman Capote

Having been an editor for more than a decade, I thought I had a good idea of how much work was involved in writing…

— Julie Klassen

“I'm going to write a novel and get it published. I'm going to do it because writing a novel is worthwhile and because I…

— Randy Ingermanson

Then I decided I would spend the summer writing a novel. That would fix a lot of people.

— Sylvia Plath

After 20 years of writing academic prose and lectures, it seems very familiar and straightforward to me. Writing a novel for the first time,…

— Deborah Harkness

If you're writing a novel, you're in a room for three or four years. There's not much coming in from the outside.

— Mordecai Richler