Books Quote by Reif Larsen

With a novel, you have to have a story. It's much more important to have it matter to the reader what happens to people,…

— Dave Barry

I write easily, let's put it that way. And in a novel particularly, the characters take over. And they tell me what to say…

— Andrew Greeley

Writing a novel isn't like building a brick wall. You don't figure out how to do it, and then it gets easier each time…

— Kate DiCamillo

Writing a story or a novel is one way of discovering sequence in experience, of stumbling upon cause and effect in the happenings of…

— Eudora Welty

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

The first thing you have to consider when writing a novel is your story, and then your story - and then your story!

— Ford Madox Ford

I've always wanted to write a novel. It's overwhelming and daunting, and it's one of those things that every writer fantasizes about doing.

— Howard Gordon

The process of writing a novel is like taking a journey by boat. You have to continually set yourself on course. If you get…

— Walter Mosley

You never learn how to write a novel. You just learn how to write the novel that you're writing.

— Gene Wolfe

And the nice thing about writing a novel is you take your time, you sit with the character sometimes nine years, you look very…

— Sandra Cisneros

When I want to read a novel, I write one.

— Benjamin Disraeli

For me, writing a novel is more like digging a well than climbing a mountain - some heroic thing where I set out to…

— Mohsin Hamid