Novel Quote by Paullina Simons

Seven years into writing a novel, I started to lose my mind. My thirty-seventh birthday had just come and gone, the end of 2008…

— Akhil Sharma

“Why would a guy spend five years writing a book when he can buy one for ten bucks?”

— Richard Johnson

Back in my 20s, when I wrote 'A Place of Greater Safety,' the French Revolution novel, I thought, 'I'll always have to write historical…

— Hilary Mantel

I've been writing since I was about thirteen but didn't start a book until 2007. I spent four years writing a sci-fi novel before…

— Samantha Shannon

I'm writing a novel about the Syrian war. It will be completely different from my short stories. I have to address my feelings directly…

— Osama Alomar

Don't start writing your novel until you know your characters very, very well. What they'd do if they saw somebody shoplifting. What they were…

— Deborah Moggach

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

Writing one's first novel, getting it sold, and shepherding it through the labyrinths of editing, production, marketing, journalism, and social media is an arduous…

— Paul Di Filippo

The hard part about writing a novel is finishing it.

— Ernest Hemingway

Then I decided I would spend the summer writing a novel. That would fix a lot of people.

— Sylvia Plath

One of the most difficult things in writing a novel or anything at all is to choose the point of view from which it's…

— Truman Capote

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