Hard Quote by Patrick Rothfuss

Writing a novel is not at all like riding a bike. Writing a novel is like having to redesign a bike, based on laws…

— Daniel Alarcon

To make it interesting and worth doing, writing a novel has to be a leap into the unknown. I have to be unsure if…

— Charles Palliser

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

It is clear that a novel cannot be too bad to be worth publishing. . . . It certainly is possible for a novel…

— George Bernard Shaw

Publishing a book is a very different thing than writing one.

— Tara Westover

If one book's done this well, you want to write another one that does just as well. There's that horror of the second novel…

— Mark Haddon

People read romance novel one after another, their searching for the one story better than they could write themselves.

— Stanley Victor Paskavich

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

Like pretty much every short story writer, I submitted to every market under the sun and hoped for the best. The rejection letters I've…

— Ken Liu

Writing a novel is a lot like reading one.

— Katherine Center

It's really hard to get a book published, even a good book, but the better the book is the better chance it has of…

— Karen Thompson Walker

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

— Virginia Woolf