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Novel Writing Quotes

Novel writing is mostly triage (this now, that later) and obstinacy. Trying something, and when that doesn't work, trying something else. Welcoming clutter Surrendering a good idea for a better one. Knowing you won't find the finish line for a year or two, or five... Richard Russo
C. S. Forester quote: "Novel writing wrecks homes."
Novel writing wrecks homes. C. S. Forester
C. S. Forester quote: "Novel writing is far and away the most exhausting work I know."
Novel writing is far and away the most exhausting work I know. C. S. Forester
Novel writing should never be confused with journalism. Unfortunately, in the case of Primary Colors, a fair number of journalists confused. Joe Klein
Ray Bradbury quote: "Don’t try to write a novel. Write short stories and then..."
Don’t try to write a novel. Write short stories and then figure out how to connect them. Ray Bradbury
People without hope do not write novels … [Writing fiction] is a plunge into reality and it’s very shocking to the system. If the novelist is not sustained by a hope of money, then he must be sustained by a hope of salvation, or he simply won’t survive the ordeal. Flannery O'Connor
Writing novels is much the same. You gather up bones and make your gate, but no matter how wonderful the gate might be, that alone doesn't make it a living breathing novel. A story is not something of this world. A real story requires a kind of magical baptism to link the world on this side with the world on the other side. Haruki Murakami
Writing a novel is a terrible experience, during which the hair often falls out and the teeth decay. I'm always irritated by people who imply that writing fiction is an escape from reality. It is a plunge into reality and it's very shocking to the system. Flannery O'Connor
Writing fiction is for me a fraught business, an occasion of daily dread for at least the first half of the novel, and sometimes all the way through. The work process is totally different from writing nonfiction. You have to sit down every day and make it up. Joan Didion
Writing a novel is actually searching for victims. As I write I keep looking for casualties. The stories uncover the casualties. John Irving
George Orwell quote: "Writing a novel is agony."
Writing a novel is agony. George Orwell
Harlan Ellison quote: "Writing a novel is like going a great distance to take a small..."
Writing a novel is like going a great distance to take a small shit. Harlan Ellison
Thomas Harris quote: "Writing novels is the hardest thing I've ever done, including..."
Writing novels is the hardest thing I've ever done, including digging irrigation ditches. Thomas Harris
Writing a novel is not merely going on a shopping expedition across the border to an unreal land: it is hours and years spent in the factories, the streets, the cathedrals of the imagination. Janet Frame
Bret Easton Ellis quote: "Writing a novel is not method acting and I find it easy to..."
Writing a novel is not method acting and I find it easy to step out of it at cocktail hour. Bret Easton Ellis

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