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MICHAEL BAIGENT
Writing a novel is agony. GEORGE ORWELL
For me, writing a short story is much, much harder than writing a novel. LYNN ABBEY Novel writing wrecks homes.
C. S. FORESTER Una novela no es buena ni por su contenido ni por como lo cuenta -dos supersticiones-, sino porque s...
ÁLVARO ENRIGUE
Writing a novel is easier than writing a memoir; you are not constrained by the truth. STEVE BISLEY
Writing a novel about World War II and the French Resistance was a challenge both sobering and thril... BOBBIE ANN MASON
The hard part about writing a novel is finishing it. ERNEST HEMINGWAY
The central problem of novel-writing is causality. JORGE LUIS BORGES
I haven't been doin' much comic book writing for the last several years though, as I've been writing... BILL MUMY
A good novel is a good novel, pointe finale. And I think what I'm writing is exactly that. LOUISE PENNY After working as a journalist I went to a writing program at Johns Hopkins. It was interesting becau...
IRIS CHANG
One of the ready advantages of writing a road or quest story is that it mirrors the experience of wr... CHANG-RAE LEE
When I am writing fiction, I believe I am much better organized, more methodical - one has to be whe... MARGARET ATWOOD
I love writing Christmas stories, especially of the historical variety. LINDA LAEL MILLER
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LISA KLEYPAS It's funny - writing the afterword required a lot of digging and research, and was ultimately harder...
DAVID THOMSON Action is the pulse of any good story, but the character is the heart. If the action has no conseque...
LINDA W. YEZAK
The historical background is one of the easier aspects of writing a novel. Far more difficult is dre... ETHAN CANIN Novel writing is far and away the most exhausting work I know.
C. S. FORESTER
Novels give you the matrix of emotions, give you the flavour of a time in a way formal history canno... DORIS LESSING I survived that trouble so likewise may I survive this one.
OLD ENGLISH WRITING
You never learn how to write a novel. You just learn how to write the novel that you're writing. GENE WOLFE I've always been ambidextrous, writing short stories and novels, and I pretty much have been wri...
CATHERINE RYAN HYDE
The dull people decided years and years ago, as everyone knows, that novel-writing was the lowest sp... WILKIE COLLINS Secret to writing a bestseller: You write. You stop dreaming of writing. You stop talking about writ...
JONATHAN GUNSON There was no romantic ending for Charlotte, but that's where writing your own novel can be so useful...
CATHERINE LOWELL
I was writing an earnest novel about cruises in the Caribbean and I just started writing 'Bridge... HELEN FIELDING
There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knowswhat they are. WILLIAM SOMERSET MAUGHAM You would go mad if you began to speculate about the impact your novel might have while you were sti...
JONATHAN COE Writing a novel is a terrible experience, during which the hair often falls out and the teeth decay.
FLANNERY O'CONNOR
There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are. W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM
When one is writing a novel in the first person, one must be that person. DAPHNE DU MAURIER The filmmaking process is a team effort. A screenwriter cannot possibly do exactly what he wants as ...
LEIGH BRACKETT
If you're writing something that's clearly labelled as an alternative history, of course it&... DIANA GABALDON Writing a novel is not at all like riding a bike. Writing a novel is like having to redesign a bike,...
DANIEL ALARCON Historical fiction is actually good preparation for reading SF. Both the historical novelist and the...
PAMELA SARGENT I didn't have that thing that Michael Bolton did; my star power - my charisma - was not a match ...
DAN HILL When you're writing historical fiction, you have to think a little farther into the situation: w...
ALEXANDER CHEE
If I had a plot that was all set in advance, why would I want go through the agony of writing the no... CHAIM POTOK
When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a c... ERNEST HEMINGWAY I taught English and history, so my education for that really helped prepare me for writing historic...
CANDACE CAMP
It's the technique, I think, of writing a novel that is difficult for a nonfiction writer. E. O. WILSON
Writing a novel is not method acting and I find it easy to step out of it at cocktail hour. BRET EASTON ELLIS I'm not the most prolific writer in the world, and, sadly, writing a novel involves a lot of eff...
TIBOR FISCHER
There are three rules for writing the novel. Unfortunately no one knows what they are. W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM
There are three rules for writing the novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are. W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM When we started writing [the new album], we were a four-piece,
JEFF DAVIS I started writing it in 2002 and kept writing and kept writing and kept writing. This is a different...
DANIEL POUND A great entertainer, Furst would probably be considered our finest practicing historical novelist if...
CHARLES TAYLOR Writing a novel without being asked seems a bit like having a baby when you have nowhere to live.
LUCY ELLMAN I was told, and indeed I saw several examples, that neither time nor place was much minded, and that...
CHARLOTTE TURNER SMITH
I think the main thing to remember when writing a novel is to stay true to the characters. CASSANDRA CLARE My final historical romance came out December 2005. While I enjoyed writing medieval romances, I was...
TINA ST. JOHN We have writing classes and language classes. We have writing conferences.
EILEEN PETROCELLI I don't feel the need to prove myself by writing the next generational novel.
CAMILLA LACKBERG
We are material creatures who spend much of our lives on material pursuits (even building a cathedra... VIRGINIA POSTREL Writing is wretched, discouraging, physically unhealthy, infinitely frustrating work. And when it al...
RALPH PETERS When one starts writing a book, especially a novel, even the humblest person in the world hopes to b...
UMBERTO ECO
I vicariously lived the life of an independent producer from the time I was four years old. And what... SAMUEL GOLDWYN
All that time that we spend tweeting our thoughts and emotions to our next of kin, we could be writi... ALEXANDRA PETRI
I have no preference on writing in contemporary or historical periods-that decision is based on the ... NICHOLAS SPARKS Remember that a good football novel has to have the same ingredients as any other good novel: drama,...
MAL PEET
English writing tends to fall into two categories - the big, baggy epic novel or the fairly controll... ZADIE SMITH
I am a novelist. I traffic in subtleties, and my goal in writing a novel is to leave the reader not ... TEJU COLE
A certain luxury when you get to writing a novel is to have the space to have your characters just b... DAVID BENIOFF One Bagatelle, and I’ll raise you a novel,” Megan had tweeted back.
“Writing for te...
L.L. BARKAT We were not meant to read stories anymore. We were too busy writing our own.
MARIA ELENA All the ideas just came out. We were crying, laughing when we were writing it.
JEANNIE LONG Writing historical novels can be dangerous. We need to be as accurate and as fair about the historic...
EDWARD RUTHERFURD
The experience of writing 'The Kite Runner' is one I will always think back on with fondness... KHALED HOSSEINI
Writing a novel was completely awesome because parts of it could suck and I could throw them away. I... AUSTIN GROSSMAN
And I love writing; I've been writing ever since I was seven. JENA MALONE
I invented the historical spy novel. ALAN FURST There is no other way of writing a novel than to begin at the beginning at to continue to the end.
C. S. FORESTER
Writing a novel is actually searching for victims. As I write I keep looking for casualties. The sto... JOHN IRVING
Nothing induces me to read a novel except when I have to make money by writing about it. I detest th... VIRGINIA WOOLF
Michael Brown was a criminal who had robbed a convenience store and then attempted to kill Police Of... PETER T. KING Writing makes me hard, like a fisherman, and brown from the heat. Tossing out and reeling in is a jo...
CHILA WOYCHIK
If I really considered myself a writer, I wouldn't be writing screenplays. I'd be writing novels. QUENTIN TARANTINO
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TODD CRAWSHAW
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The good thing about writing a novel is that you're creating an imaginary world and can take a b... LIANE MORIARTY
When I started writing 'Sex and the City,' I was writing about women I knew in New York who were in ... CANDACE BUSHNELL Writing a novel is like knocking on a door that will never open. You are so desperate to get in, you...
SAMANTHA SHANNON Writing a first novel was an arduous crash course. I learned so much in the six years it took me to ...
RACHEL KUSHNER I suppose I started writing seriously at 16 years old. I thought I wrote a novel at 16 and sent it t...
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Sometimes writing a novel is not unlike having a baby. You'd have to ask a female novelist to co... SALMAN RUSHDIE I've been writing stories since I was a kid. I love writing stories.
RANDA ABDEL-FATTAH
I went to Marion College for writing and I was kicked out of the writing school. I was asked to leav... LAURELL K. HAMILTON I think writing a poem is like being a greyhound. Writing a novel is like being a mule. You go up on...
RON RASH I started writing 'The Lobster Kings' the day after I sold my first novel, 'Touch.'
ALEXI ZENTNER We were underdogs from the beginning and we are again. Everyone is writing us off already.
JED ORTMEYER
It was only after two years' work that it occurred to me that I was a writer. I had no particular ex... DON DELILLO Our field inspectors were writing everything down and nothing was being captured. So we were looking...
JAY MARSHALL I had started writing the fourth Whit Mosley book, ... I was 40 pages into it, and then Dutton asked...
JEFF ABBOTT Writing a novel is an intense and lonely business, but you have the reward at the end of a very dire...
NEIL CROSS
Writing a novel is a terrible experience, during which the hair often falls out and the teeth decay.... FLANNERY O'CONNOR
Tomorrow may be hell, but today was a good writing day, and on the good writing days nothing else ma... NEIL GAIMAN
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