Books Quote by W. Somerset Maugham

There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.

— W. Somerset Maugham

“There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are. —W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM”

— Wendy Wax

I don't think there are any secrets to writing in the - everybody has their own techniques. You must be widely read, that's one…

— Arthur C. Clarke

“One of the sad little secrets of the writing life is that it’s become like the movie business, where a movie has to “open…

— Brian Morton

“A writer’s life is half ambition and half anxiety, and there has to be both. It is no good writing a novel and feeling…

— Martin Amis

“When I am writing a novel, the setting, the characters, the action is clear in mind when I start -- so I believe. But…

— P.D. James

I sometimes start keeping a journal about the writing process itself. Particularly when I get the ideas, and I am trying to brood over…

— Sue Monk Kidd

I've never been good with deadlines. My early novels, I wrote by myself. No one knew I was writing a novel; I didn't have…

— George R. R. Martin

When you're writing a novel, you spend four years sitting in your basement and a year waiting for the book to come out and…

— John Green

When I was writing my first novel, 'Where the Line Bleeds,' which had young black men as its main characters, I was very invested…

— Jesmyn Ward

One of the most difficult things in writing a novel or anything at all is to choose the point of view from which it's…

— Truman Capote

Having been an editor for more than a decade, I thought I had a good idea of how much work was involved in writing…

— Julie Klassen