Books Quote by Nicholas Mosley

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

I had novels to write, so I wrote them.

— Octavia E. Butler

You spend so much time as a writer telling straight and linear stories.

— Nathan Englander

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 had originally been looking at writing, including fiction.

— Ben Rhodes

I knew I wanted to write novels, but I could not finish what I started. The closer I got, the more ways I'd find…

— Steven Pressfield

All my friends who wanted to write had got nowhere trying to write the great European novel. So I deliberately steered clear of that…

— Jo Nesbo

For years and years I thought that stories were just practice, till I got time to write a novel,

— Alice Munro

They were a very good form for me - the way a short story has to be designed in order to function, to get…

— Tara Westover

The first thing you have to consider when writing a novel is your story, and then your story - and then your story!

— Ford Madox Ford

I never plot out my novels in terms of the tone of the book. Hopefully, once a story is begun it reveals itself

— Alice Hoffman

It was only after two years' work that it occurred to me that I was a writer. I had no particular expectation that the…

— Don DeLillo