Books Quote by Robert Cormier

What I like to write about is stuff I know. I don't think I could write a novel. I don't think I have it…

— Carol Burnett

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

Novel-writing is a bit like deception. You lie as little as you possibly can. That's the way I do it, anyway.

— Joseph O'Neill

I never know as a writer when I set out into a novel where it's going to take me.

— Kim Edwards

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

I write my novels personally, desperately and non-negligently. When I write my novels, I think about my novels only, and never do other works.

— Haruki Murakami

I see myself as a novelist, period. I mean, the material I work with is what is classified as science fiction and fantasy, and…

— Roger Zelazny

Whenever I write a novel, most of the time it starts with barest slip of an idea.

— Elizabeth Berg

When I'm writing a novel, I'm usually just trying to write about things that are interesting to me.

— Ruth Ozeki

I write the novels that are possible for me to write, not that ones I think will come across in a certain light.

— Rachel Kushner

For me, writing a novel is like solving a puzzle. But I don't intend my novels as puzzles. I intend them as invitations to…

— Mohsin Hamid

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