Books Quote by Sloane Crosley

Writing a novel is a lot like reading one.

— Katherine Center

The essays are different because ultimately it's things I'm interested in, and I'm really just writing about myself and using those subjects as a…

— Chuck Klosterman

“Writing a novel is just like life ... it's only in the doing of it that I find out what works.”

— Angela Young

In an essay, you have the outcome in your pocket before you set out on your journey, and very rarely do you make an…

— Cynthia Ozick

Novel writing is far and away the most exhausting work I know.

— C. S. Forester

Writing a novel is like heading out over the open sea in a small boat. It helps, if you have a plan and a…

— John Gardner

Academic writing you have to get right. Fiction you have to get plausible. And there's a world of difference.

— Elliott Colla

Deciding to write a novel about something - as opposed to finding you are writing a novel around something - sounds to me like…

— Martin Amis

Nothing trains you better to write fiction than being really good at writing about your own interiority.

— Emily Gould

Writing a novel is like an amusement park or a museum or a city. You go into that place and you have certain experiences…

— Mohsin Hamid

I have lots of fiction in the drawer, but the essays I mostly kick out into the world, ready or not. Fiction incubates differently,…

— Charles D'Ambrosio

To me, the contemporary novel suffers from a lack of sense of place - or spirit of place, if you will. It's not important…

— Lawrence Osborne