Asks Quote by Scott Westerfeld

“writing a novel is extremely complicated. So complicated, in fact, that you cannot possibly hold your entire novel in your head all at once.…

— Nathan Bransford

“A simple look can not and will not uncover even a simple book.”

— ferrrer joey palomar fesico

A novel is challenging, because you have more story than you need and you have to select and narrow.

— Peter Hedges

I had no idea how complicated and solitary it could be to write a simple book.

— Jenny Lawson

“One has to be just a little crazy to write a great novel”

— John Gardner

Novels and stories are sometimes very complex staging grounds to say, in fact, very simple things. Things impossible to say otherwise because they are…

— Zadie Smith

“No one can tell you what you can and cannot put in your book. So be brave and just write!”

— Chrys Fey

“those in the next book! Here you will find my ideas for simple”

— Louise Westerhout

“Writing a balanced, beautiful novel, where plot and character and setting and pacing and narrative structure and imagery and, above all, story work in…

— Nicola Griffith

“Simple is complicated.”

— HEDoffice

To read a novel is a difficult and complex art.

— Virginia Woolf

I believe a novel should be as complicated and involved as you're capable of making it.

— John Irving