Answers Quote by Nicholas Sparks

With a novel, you have to have a story. It's much more important to have it matter to the reader what happens to people,…

— Dave Barry

Novels are almost like music or poetry - they just come to me in simple sentences, whereas I think my pieces get more and…

— Joan Didion

Novels definitely come more naturally to me. When I write short stories, it's always a fight against it expanding.

— Maggie Shipstead

I don't know that any writing comes easily, but I certainly get more immersed in novels. I don't think the routine is any different,…

— Jess Walter

My own feeling is that the only possible reason for engaging in the hard labor of writing a novel, is that one is bothered…

— May Sarton

When I write a novel, I want it to be completely different from a screenplay. I'm very conscious of the difference, and I want…

— Kazuo Ishiguro

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

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

— Peter Hedges

I think writing novels has taught me more about the value of patience and being organized. I've learned to use timelines and wikis to…

— Ken Liu

To me, novels are a trip of discovery, and you discover things that you don't know and you assume that many of your readers…

— Tom Wolfe

The movies are fun, but I'm a novelist. In many ways, screenwriting is much easier than writing novels. I find screenplays twenty times easier…

— Nicholas Sparks

Novels are more difficult simply because they are longer and require more juggling, but short stories are closer to perfection, if you can get…

— Colum McCann