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

— Kim Edwards

Writing a novel is an intense and lonely business, but you have the reward at the end of a very direct dialogue between you…

— Neil Cross

Writing a novel is a terrible experience, during which the hair often falls out and the teeth decay. I'm always irritated by people who…

— Flannery O'Connor

Writing a novel is like an amusement park or a museum or a city. You go into that place and you have certain experiences…

— 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

And the nice thing about writing a novel is you take your time, you sit with the character sometimes nine years, you look very…

— Sandra Cisneros

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 just realized quite early on that I'm not going to be the type who can write a novel every two years. I think…

— Zadie Smith

Writing a novel in general is like trying to reach a mountain top you'll never quite reach - so you try again and maybe…

— Harlan Coben

“...fiction writing is like duck hunting. You go to the right place at the right time with the right dog. You get into the…

— Ann Patchett

To me, novels are a trip of discovery, and you discover things that you don't know and you assume that many of your readers…

— Tom Wolfe

The process of writing a novel is like taking a journey by boat. You have to continually set yourself on course. If you get…

— Walter Mosley