Books Quote by Asa Larsson

It's hard enough to make a novel a novel. I wouldn't know how to make it something else at the same time

— Matthew Specktor

Holy cow - everything about writing a novel is hard for me.

— Laura van den Berg

No wonder you want to be a writer. How can you not, with all that behind you? You practically are a novel already.

— Sylvia Brownrigg

I knew I wanted to write novels, but I could not finish what I started. The closer I got, the more ways I'd find…

— Steven Pressfield

Writing a novel that works is an extremely difficult thing to do. It requires a level of skill and dedication that always surprises me.

— Bret Easton Ellis

I'm not the most prolific writer in the world, and, sadly, writing a novel involves a lot of effort.

— Tibor Fischer

Writing a book is so much harder than I imagined.

— Eva Gutowski

Initially I only decided to try and write a novel because I wasn't getting enough screenwriting work. It wasn't a long-held ambition, and certainly…

— Stef Penney

The one thing an aspiring writer must understand is that it's hard. If you think it's not hard, you're not doing it right.

— Gene Weingarten

Writing a book is quite an undertaking and I wouldn't want to do it just to do it.

— Laverne Cox

Before you can write a novel you have to have a number of ideas that come together. One idea is not enough.

— Joyce Carol Oates

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