Books Quote by Steven Saylor

It is so much hard work writing your first novel. You're not even sure that it is possible to do.

— Asa Larsson

Writing a novel that works is an extremely difficult thing to do. It requires a level of skill and dedication that always surprises me.

— Bret Easton Ellis

Because as any writer will tell you, an IDEA for a book is like falling in love, it's all wild emotion and headlong rush,…

— Ben H. Winters

One must be just a little crazy to write a great novel. One must be capable of allowing the darkest, most ancient and shrewd…

— John Gardner

The luxury of time to write, and the confidence to do so, make it easier for the more affluent and when the most decorated…

— Dawn Foster

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

— John Gardner

I'm not the most prolific writer in the world, and, sadly, writing a novel involves a lot of effort.

— Tibor Fischer

“Eventually, we come to love certain novels because we have expended so much imaginative labor on them. This is why we hang on to…

— Orhan Pamuk

Writing a novel is like making love, but it's also like having a tooth pulled. Pleasure and pain. Sometimes it's like making love while…

— Dean Koontz

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

— Joel Dicker

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 novel is like childbirth: once you realize how awful it really is, you never want to do it again.

— Sarah Dessen