Bad Quote by Patrick White

I didn't get anything published until I was thirty-three, and yet I'd written five novels and six or seven plays. The plays, I should…

— Edmund White

Before trying a novel I wrote a couple of plays.

— James Merrill

I have a lot of stuff that I never published because I always had a sense that novels were not finally going to be…

— William Monahan

I had novels to write, so I wrote them.

— Octavia E. Butler

I had written a book. For various reasons, the publishing industry had decided that my book was going to be 'important.' The novel had…

— Akhil Sharma

When I wrote my novel, 'The Ministry of Special Cases,' I couldn't even brush my teeth. I had to write in isolation from everything…

— Nathan Englander

When I was fifteen I wrote seven hundred pages of an incredibly bad novel - it's a very funny book I still like a…

— Edward Albee

I'd never written a novel before, and I wrote a novel, and that turned out OK.

— Rainbow Rowell

Usually people who do bad things make good writers.I did a lot of bad things, which is why my novels are interesting.

— Jakucho Setouchi

I did try to write fiction. I wrote 10 novels. And they were all just awful.

— Alexandra Fuller

I wrote the worst novel ever.

— Sophie Ellis-Bextor

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