Books Quote by Thomas Harris

“To write a novel, you begin with what you can see and then you add what came before and what came after.”

— Thomas Harris

You must understand that when you are writing a novel you are not making anything up. It's all there and you just have to…

— Thomas Harris

“You must understand that when you are writing a novel you are not making anything up.”

— Thomas Harris

Writing a novel isn't like building a brick wall. You don't figure out how to do it, and then it gets easier each time…

— Kate DiCamillo

Novel writing, like so many things in life, is an iterative process. You come at it again and again, working at it like you…

— Kameron Hurley

One of the biggest mistakes people make is to think that what you need to write a novel is imagination, creativity and a facility…

— Kate Forsyth

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

— Angela Young

The process of writing a novel is like taking a journey by boat. You have to continually set yourself on course. If you get…

— Walter Mosley

You never learn how to write a novel. You just learn how to write the novel that you're writing.

— Gene Wolfe

“Writing a novel is like trying to solve a jigsaw puzzle whose pieces aren't even fixed in shape. Yet, somehow, they all come together…

— Jyoti Arora

Before you can write a novel you have to have a number of ideas that come together. One idea is not enough.

— Joyce Carol Oates

“Every novel is brand-new. It’s never been written before in the history of the world. At the same time, it’s merely the latest in…

— Thomas C. Foster