Books Quote by Neil Gaiman

Music is love in search of a word.

— Sidney Lanier

A lot of people, I think, harbor some kind of ambition to write a novel - they say, 'One day I'm going to write…

— Alex Garland

Originally I was going to write a fashion style guide, but then my publishers suggested I write a novel instead.

— Tinsley Mortimer

“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

Like lots of people who say, 'I'm going to write a novel,' it's actually more comfortable to think I could write a novel than…

— Hugh Grant

Everything that I write comes when it wants to, out of its own need and it dictates its form. I don't say, "I am…

— Sandra Cisneros

I tell people the first time I decided to write a novel I was in my mid-20s, and it was, 'Well, it's time to…

— John Scalzi

I suspect there are two kinds of novelists. Those who have a point of view and have something to say and then write a…

— Neil Gaiman

I'm pretty hardcore. I stick exactly to what I'm doing. So I write a novel in one period, and then I'll write stories in…

— T.C. Boyle

“To write a novel, you begin with what you can see and then you add what came before and what came after.”

— Thomas Harris

If you get trapped in your head and out of your body during the writing process, it's very easy to make wrong turns. You…

— Soman Chainani

When people write a novel, they want to have that reach and that impact. To get it with a first novel, you can either…

— Irvine Welsh

I don't assume, because I can write screenplays, that I know how to write a novel. It's a very different world. There's a craft…

— Melissa Rosenberg

When I need to take a side, I write a newspaper article and I tell my government, "You should not do that, you should…

— Amos Oz

I've never been that person who thought that because I've written one novel, I should write another and another. It's only when there was…

— Arundhati Roy