Books Quote by Sandra Cisneros

I never really know what I'm going to write next until it comes to me. So we'll just have to see what happens.

— Sarah Dessen

Content dictates form and style.

— Stephen Sondheim

The way the function dictates the form... elegant lines... nothing extraneous... this shoe perfectly expresses the essence of shoeness.

— David Mazzucchelli

A lot of people, I think, harbor some kind of ambition to write a novel - they say, 'One day I'm going to write…

— Alex Garland

Originally I was going to write a fashion style guide, but then my publishers suggested I write a novel instead.

— Tinsley Mortimer

Like lots of people who say, 'I'm going to write a novel,' it's actually more comfortable to think I could write a novel than…

— Hugh Grant

The search for the word gets no easier but nobody else is going to write your novel for you.

— Neil Gaiman

I tell people the first time I decided to write a novel I was in my mid-20s, and it was, 'Well, it's time to…

— John Scalzi

“I'm going to write a novel and get it published. I'm going to do it because writing a novel is worthwhile and because I…

— Randy Ingermanson

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

— Thomas Harris

I don't assume, because I can write screenplays, that I know how to write a novel. It's a very different world. There's a craft…

— Melissa Rosenberg

I've never been that person who thought that because I've written one novel, I should write another and another. It's only when there was…

— Arundhati Roy