Books Quote by Sandra Cisneros

I never, ever decided that I had to write a novel because, to me, there's no such decision that ought to be made. It's…

— Arundhati Roy

Objectifying your own novel while writing it never really helps. Instead, I guess while you're writing you need to think: This is the novel…

— Meg Wolitzer

The desire to write a novel is the single required prerequisite for writing a novel.

— Jane Smiley

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

In the end I write the novels I need to write when I need to write them.

— Steve Erickson

When I want to read a novel, I write one.

— Benjamin Disraeli

I believe that what we want to write wants to be written. I believe that as I have an impulse to create, the something…

— Julia Cameron

Each time I have the urge in me to make a statement or send a message or to issue a manifesto, I don't bother…

— Amos Oz

“To write a novel, you begin with what you can see and then you add what came before and what came after. ...You must…

— Thomas Harris

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

— Kim Edwards

You never know what you'll want to write until it starts writing itself in your head.

— Jill Ker Conway

Some people say 'I want to be a writer,' and some people say, 'I want to write.'

— Robin Hobb