Best Quote by Nick Hornby

I used to be a freelance journalist, so I had to write fast, but I always found writing nonfiction constraining. I like the freedom…

— Michelle Gagnon

The only difficulty is to know what bits to choose and what to leave out. Novel-writing is not creation, it is selection.

— Winifred Holtby

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

Writing fiction is for me a fraught business, an occasion of daily dread for at least the first half of the novel, and sometimes…

— Joan Didion

If you want to be a writer, you write. Everybody wants to get published. You gotta play your long game.

— Paul Harding

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

First-book novelists and storywriters haven't yet failed and so it's easier to publish them - you can gamble on a success. Whereas someone who…

— Frederick Busch

You like to write. It's the single most important quality for someone who wants to be a writer. But not in itself enough.

— Haruki Murakami

“Writing novels allows the novelist to spend much of his time in a fictional world, which is really the only or at least the…

— Javier Marías

I think the path to becoming a writer has become more through the novel. It's easier to get a novel published than a book…

— Jess Walter

The main thing is that you have a good editor - one that believes in you and who will give you the feedback that…

— Christopher Darden

Being published is not a necessary validation or a path everyone wants to take with their work. Writing—and finishing—a novel is a great thing…

— Garth Nix