Books Quote by Truman Capote

I believe a novel should be as complicated and involved as you're capable of making it.

— John Irving

Keep on the lookout for novel ideas that others have used successfully. Your idea has to be original only in its adaptation to the…

— Anonymous

And I think a good writer's gonna make it interesting. From the first paragraph it will all be interesting. Just work at it and…

— Kurt Loder

Maybe one day I'll write a full-blown tell-all book.

— Ariana Madix

The only way to write a novel is to proceed as if you had all the time in the world.

— Philip Gerard

If you have one strong idea, you can't help repeating it and embroidering it. Sometimes I think that authors should write one novel and…

— John P. Marquand

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

Once you've invested hundreds of hours in creating a coherent universe, your story's grown to around a half-million words and can't be written as…

— Lynn Abbey

Writing a book is something I actually feel like I could do. I don't know when that would happen, but I feel like if…

— Paul F. Tompkins

I haven't run out of ideas yet. Usually while I'm working on a book, I'm doing research for the next one!

— Jodi Picoult

Writing a novel is like trying to solve a very long mathematical equation. Changing anything can change everything else.

— Carl Sagan

“Writing a book is a herculean task, but the toughest thing is to get convinced with your work, and finally give it a green…

— Shivam Chaudhary