Books Quote by Umberto Eco

Novel writing, to me, is all about language: choosing your words, finding the characters within the words and just really agonizing over every word.…

— Jonathan Tropper

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 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

Writing a novel is not at all like riding a bike. Writing a novel is like having to redesign a bike, based on laws…

— Daniel Alarcon

A novel is utterly your own creation, a very private process. I think of a novel as a noun and a screenplay as a…

— Deborah Moggach

To me, novels are a trip of discovery, and you discover things that you don't know and you assume that many of your readers…

— Tom Wolfe

In my experience, writing a novel tends to create its own structure, its own demands, its own language, its own ending.

— Don DeLillo

There are as many different ways to write a novel as there are varieties of human consciousness, so I am totally delighted if people…

— Emily Barton

A book is basically just symbols arranged to form this story, this world. But on the other hand, books, novels, literature in general, is…

— Shane Warren Jones

The trouble with calling a book a novel, well, it's not like I'm writing the same book all the time, but there is a…

— Aleksandar Hemon

A novel, basically, is writing one sentence — then, without violating the scope of the first one, writing the next sentence.

— Anonymous

“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