Books Quote by Paul Auster

The more fiction you read and write, the more you'll find your paragraphs forming on their own.

— Stephen King

“a novel can best be defined as a long piece of prose with something wrong with it, and”

— Neil Gaiman

It's always the paragraphs I loved most, the ones I tenderly polished and re-read with pride, that my editor will suggest cutting.

— Liane Moriarty

In my experience, writing a novel tends to create its own structure, its own demands, its own language, its own ending.

— Don DeLillo

Novel writing, to me, is all about language: choosing your words, finding the characters within the words and just really agonizing over every word.…

— Jonathan Tropper

I find in my own writing that only fiction - and rarely, a poem - fully tests me to the kind of limits of…

— John Updike

A novel's whole pattern is rarely apparent at the outset of writing, or even at the end; that is when the writer finds out…

— Diane Johnson

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

It is perfectly legitimate to write novels which are essentially prose poems, but in the end, I think, a novel is like a car,…

— Robert Harris

The things that are said in literature are always the same. What is important is the way they are said.

— Jorge Luis Borges

For me, literature is a complex game, both mental and concrete, which is acted out in a physical manner on the page.

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

I think writing a poem is like being a greyhound. Writing a novel is like being a mule. You go up one long row,…

— Ron Rash