Books Quote by Ruth Jones

Writing a novel is solitary, but I don't mind that.

— Ruth Jones

I find playwriting to be incredibly difficult compared to screenwriting. Part of it is that I grew up watching movies and not watching plays.

— Zoe Kazan

Working on a novel is very solitary and I get to be the boss. I'm the dictator, so I win every battle. So, in…

— Nicholas Sparks

I've quit writing screenplay [adaptations]. It's too much work. I don't look at writing a novel as work, because I only have to please…

— Elmore Leonard

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

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

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