Book Quote by Ryan North

My second, third and fourth novels were mistakes, essentially.

— John Burnside

I'd never written a novel before, and I wrote a novel, and that turned out OK.

— Rainbow Rowell

I keep telling myself I should try very hard to write a novel of about 210 pages... I don't seem to be capable of…

— Elizabeth Kostova

I think I was also afraid of the novel. I write line by line, proceeding at snail's pace, rewriting as I go and paring…

— Debra Dean

I write a book at least three times-once to understand it, the second time to improve the prose, and a third to compel it…

— Bernard Malamud

You don't write a book. You write a sentence and then a paragraph and then a page and then a chapter. Looking at writing…

— Rebecca Serle

One of the biggest mistakes people make is to think that what you need to write a novel is imagination, creativity and a facility…

— Kate Forsyth

I think I'm succinct to the point of trying to write the two-word novel. Editing my work almost never means taking anything out but…

— Kate DiCamillo

If you're going to write a good book, you have to make mistakes and you have to not be so cautious all the time.

— Zadie Smith

I'm ashamed to admit this, but I didn't read a novel all the way through until after high school. Blasphemy, I know. I'm an…

— Matt de la Pena

If you try to write 1,000 words a day, as I do, after 100 days you'll look up and have a book. It may…

— Justin Cronin

I discovered ... that a novel has nothing to do with words in the first instance. Writing a novel is a cosmological matter, like…

— Umberto Eco