Books Quote by P. G. Wodehouse

I believe there are two ways of writing novels. One is mine, making a sort of musical comedy without music and ignoring real life…

— P. G. Wodehouse

“I wish people would think of me as a musician who writes novels, instead of a novelist who writes music on the side.”

— Anthony Burgess

“Writing a novel is just like life ... it's only in the doing of it that I find out what works.”

— Angela Young

“Novels are written—as life is lived—One Day At A Time.”

— Lawrence Block

“Novels can tell us so much about life. They have the power to enrich our own lives in so many different ways. They're not…

— Victoria Connelly

“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

“To write is to forget. Literature is the pleasantest way of ignoring life.”

— Fernando Pessoa

“writers shouldn’t spend all their time doing what they don’t enjoy. Instead, they need to do what they love. They need to write.”

— Jeff Goins

“I started out hoping to remind people at some point in the novel that we should be loving and kind. But then the theme…

— Patricia Hickman

“I find that writing is as magical as the genre I write in. When the story comes alive and takes over, it's truly a…

— K.M. Randall

“Writing a book is like pulling strands out of your soul, one by one, until one day instead of a mess it finally looks…

— Ksenia Anske

“If you are a real writer, then just surrender to the writer's life, all of it, even the bad stuff. When you do that,…

— Lauren B. Davis