Books Quote by Steven Pressfield

Initially I only decided to try and write a novel because I wasn't getting enough screenwriting work. It wasn't a long-held ambition, and certainly…

— Stef Penney

Eventually, I realised that I wanted to try to create something myself, and that's what writing novels is. Not because I wanted to put…

— Chris Pavone

I always wanted to write novels, even before I had read a lot of novels or had a very good idea of what they…

— Elif Batuman

In the end I write the novels I need to write when I need to write them.

— Steve Erickson

I think one of the good things about writing novels is that you always start from scratch.

— Maria Semple

I don't start a novel until I have lived with the story for awhile to the point of actually writing an outline and after…

— John Grisham

I had reached a point in my career in which I was ready to try something new in my writing, and the idea of…

— E. O. Wilson

The hard part about writing a novel is finishing it.

— Ernest Hemingway

I hoped to be able to write a novel which would enable me to live on it while I wrote the next.

— Harper Lee

When you are young, hone your craft and write shorter pieces instead of novels, because it's really hard to finish a novel.

— Laini Taylor

Although when I start a novel I know how it will begin and end, I like to let the people within the story take…

— Cecelia Ahern

I feel like I could devote myself to far more important things than writing novels.

— Sally Rooney