Books Quote by Thomas Harris

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

— Thomas Harris

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

— Thomas Harris

“I am not ultimately interested in writing fiction. I can't make things up. Or rather, I can only make things up about things that…

— Alison Bechdel

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've got to make an effort to get the details right, because even through someone picks it up and knows it's a novel, they…

— Sara Sheridan

“Everything in my novel is true, except the stuff I made up.”

— L.D.C. Fitzgerald

“A novel is just a story that hasn't yet discovered a way to be brief.”

— George Saunders

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

— Angela Young

“When you read a book, you don't give up on it. You might soon feel like your part of the story.”

— Kiersten White

“You are the author of your story. Nobody else is writing it now but you.”

— Nate Green

“But I was beginning to learn that your life is a story told about you, not one that you tell. Of course, you pretend…

— John Green

“Unfortunately, the story wasn’t a novel, and it wasn’t fiction.”

— Aleatha Romig