Books Quote by Sara Cox

I envy those writers who outline their novels, who know where they're going. But I find writing is a process of discovery.

— Jay McInerney

It's the writer's job to stage confrontations, so the characters will say surprising and revealing things, and educate and entertain us all.

— Kurt Vonnegut

A lot of writers write for an audience that's going to understand them.

— Torrey Peters

I love doing the research for the novels. For me, the writing is hard work.

— Clive Cussler

As much as I really like the screenwriting thing, the novel is where the author has so much control.

— Gillian Flynn

And you can tell the writers who do it - Robert Stone, for example, who with each new novel is doing something new. I…

— Tobias Wolff

I think fiction writers write what they do because no one else has written it and they want to read it.

— Alan Cheuse

I do extensive research before I begin writing, but only a fraction of the research goes into the novels. The writer does not need…

— Edward Rutherfurd

I love novels where not much 'happens' but where the interest is in the ideas and analyses of characters.

— Alain de Botton

There are writers who draw immediate attention to the fact that it's fiction. And I like some of that, but it doesn't really have…

— Ethan Canin

Like many writers, I'm usually more interested in reading about authors than their actual works. We're more curious to know how they were written…

— Hallgrimur Helgason

What we know about writing the novel is the novel.

— Eudora Welty