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I wasn't sitting around years ago thinking, 'I really want to write a novel.

— Amy Waldman

To be a novelist, all I need is a pen and a piece of paper.

— Quentin Tarantino

I can't do a linear novel. I'm just going to write what I need to write.

— Sandra Cisneros

No, I can't write a novel. I don't have a story.

— Harry Enfield

The best way to write a novel is to do it behind your own back.

— China Mieville

I'm not like a Sears Catalog of ideas. I don't have that many ideas. I've more or less written them over the years. Usually,…

— Brian Helgeland

In the end I write the novels I need to write when I need to write them.

— Steve Erickson

I'm always telling myself as I write that I'm not really writing a novel; I'm just going to fool around with a character or…

— Robert Cormier

For your information, a good novel can change the world. Keep that in mind before you attempt to sit down at a typewriter. Never…

— John Fante

I know some writers that have a million novel ideas, but I don't.

— Laura van den Berg

I never know as a writer when I set out into a novel where it's going to take me.

— Kim Edwards

My fifth-grade teacher, Mrs. Poppy, had us each write a 'novel,' whatever that meant to us. It must have been 10 pages long, and…

— Andrew Sean Greer