Books Quote by Thomas Keneally

“Nobody ever recommended or even desired that I be a novelist - in fact, some tried to stop me. I had the idea to…

— Haruki Murakami

“No matter how much enthusiasm and effort you put into writing, if you totally lack literary talent you can forget about being a novelist.”

— Haruki Murakami

“You never finish writing a novel, you eventually abandon it.”

— Tom Winton

“I have had so many spectacular failures, but looking back, I can see how each of them led me a little closer to doing…

— Timothy Ferriss

“The most dangerous lie we tell ourselves is that writing novels shouldn't feel like a job.”

— Kameron Hurley

“If living is to progress, if you are lucky, from foolishness to wisdom, then to write novels is to broadcast the various stages of…

— Jane Smiley

“I'm a novelist. Anything you say can be taken down and used against you in a work of fiction.”

— Anne R. Allen

“The hardest thing about writing a novel is getting it published.”

— Marianne Cushing

“Beware of being only a writer.”

— Miranda Paul

“Writers are made--forged, really, in a kiln of their own madness and insecurities--over the course of many, many moons. The writer you are when…

— Chuck Wendig

“Writing may be a solitary endeavor, but publishing is not.”

— Natasha Yim

“I had been given a wonderful opportunity to be a novelist — a chance you just don't get every day.”

— Haruki Murakami