Awful Quote by Sarah Dessen

Writing a novel is agony.

— George Orwell

Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painful illness.

— George Orwell

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

Writing a novel is an act of self-annihilation as much as self-discovery. You can kill whole appetites and flood whole depths while plumbing them,…

— Andrew O'Hagan

Novel writing is like heroin addiction; it takes everything you've got.

— James N. Frey

The only way to write a novel is to proceed as if you had all the time in the world.

— Philip Gerard

Writing a book is an emotional odyssey, sometimes exhilarating, other times deflating.

— Ryan O'Neal

Sometimes writing a novel is not unlike having a baby. You'd have to ask a female novelist to compare the pain.

— Salman Rushdie

You write your first novel with the desperation of the damned. You're afraid that you'll never write anything else, ever again.

— Patricia Duncker

Writing a book is like loving someone. It can be very painful.

— Joel Dicker

The fact of the matter is that you should really stop concerning yourself with writing a book because anyone can write a book that…

— Ashly Lorenzana

I'd never written a novel before, and I wrote a novel, and that turned out OK.

— Rainbow Rowell