Books Quote by Richard Yates

I never wrote anything that was published until I was forty.

— James A. Michener

I used to feel for years and years and years that I was very remiss not to have written a novel and I would…

— Alice Munro

I don't write a novel every two years.

— Jayne Anne Phillips

I didn't write any fiction until I was past thirty.

— Grace Paley

When I began to write seriously, 40 years ago now, my chosen form was the novel.

— William Nicholson

The only way to write a novel is to proceed as if you had all the time in the world.

— Philip Gerard

One good reason for writing novels based on your life is that you have something to read in old age when you've forgotten what…

— Nina Bawden

At 45, I am too young to write my memoirs.

— Pooja Bhatt

I wasn't sitting around years ago thinking, 'I really want to write a novel.

— Amy Waldman

I feel no desire to write a novel that takes place in the past.

— Mohsin Hamid

Writing a novel is like childbirth: once you realize how awful it really is, you never want to do it again.

— Sarah Dessen

Remember that the book which bores you when you are twenty or thirty will open doors for you when you are forty or fifty-and…

— Doris Lessing