Books Quote by Neil Gaiman

Half the fun of writing a novel is finding out from other people later on what you actually meant.

— Iain Banks

I hope my novels will allow you to become lost in a world totally unlike the actual world we live in. I work hard…

— Jay Neugeboren

A novel is challenging, because you have more story than you need and you have to select and narrow.

— Peter Hedges

I spend eight months outlining and researching the novel before I begin to write a single word of the prose.

— Jeffery Deaver

To read a novel is a difficult and complex art.

— Virginia Woolf

I discovered ... that a novel has nothing to do with words in the first instance. Writing a novel is a cosmological matter, like…

— Umberto Eco

I don't know how everyone writes a novel; that sounds exhausting.

— Raphael Bob-Waksberg

People only become writers if they can't find the one book they've always wanted to read.

— Virginia Woolf

A novel is a journey into your own soul, and you seek there to discover those things that you share with all others.

— Richard Flanagan

Holy cow - everything about writing a novel is hard for me.

— Laura van den Berg

Novels are . . . an unsurpassed form to understand people.

— Henning Mankell

I . . . am always half afraid of finding a clever novel too clever--& of finding my own story & my own people all forestalled.

— Jane Austen