Bits Quote by Winifred Holtby

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

Novel writing, like so many things in life, is an iterative process. You come at it again and again, working at it like you…

— Kameron Hurley

Writing is a difficult trade which must be learned slowly by reading great authors; by trying at the outset to imitate them; by daring…

— Andre Maurois

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

What's the challenge in writing a novel that few people will read? I'm more than happy writing what I do and have no plans…

— Nicholas Sparks

Holy cow - everything about writing a novel is hard for me.

— Laura van den Berg

The best bit of novel writing is being allowed to write exactly what you want at the speed that you want, and to include…

— Nick Hornby

I'm not the most prolific writer in the world, and, sadly, writing a novel involves a lot of effort.

— Tibor Fischer

To make it interesting and worth doing, writing a novel has to be a leap into the unknown. I have to be unsure if…

— Charles Palliser

The one thing an aspiring writer must understand is that it's hard. If you think it's not hard, you're not doing it right.

— Gene Weingarten

The strange thing about writing is that it's so easy to write a novel. It is really easy. But it's getting there to the…

— Karl Ove Knausgard

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