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Novel Writing Quotes (page 6)

Sex is hard to write about because you lose the universal and succumb to the particular. We all have our different favorites. Good sex is impossible to write about. Lawrence and Updike have given it their all, and the result is still uneasy and unsure. It may be that good sex is something fiction just can't do--like dreams. Most of the sex in my novels is absolutely disastrous. Sex can be funny, but not very sexy. Martin Amis
I want to write. I've already told my mother: That's what I want to do-write. No answer the first time. Then she asks, Write what? I say, Books, novels. [...] She's against it, it's not worthy, it's not real work, it's nonsense. Later she said, A childish idea. Marguerite Duras
If writing novels is like planting a forest, then writing short stories is more like planting a garden. The two processes complement each other, creating a complete landscape that I treasure. The green foliage of the trees casts a pleasant shade over the earth, and the wind rustles the leaves, which are sometimes dyed a brilliant gold. Meanwhile, in the garden, buds appear on the flowers, and colorful petals attract bees and butterflies, reminding us of the subtle transition from one season... Haruki Murakami
You do not write a novel for praise, or thinking of your audience. You write for yourself; you work out between you and your pen the things that intrigue you Bret Easton Ellis
Ursula K. Le Guin quote: "I don't write tracts, I write novels. I'm not a preacher, I'm..."
I don't write tracts, I write novels. I'm not a preacher, I'm a fiction writer. Ursula K. Le Guin
Sue Grafton quote: "I started writing seriously when I was 18, wrote my first..."
I started writing seriously when I was 18, wrote my first novel when I was 22, and I've never stopped writing since. Sue Grafton
I was writing an earnest novel about cruises in the Caribbean and I just started writing 'Bridget Jones' to get some money, to finance this earnest work, and then I chucked it out. Helen Fielding
What I couldn't help noticing was that I learned more about the novel in a morning by trying to write a page of one than I'd learned in seven years or so of trying to write criticism. Philip Pullman
Character is character and voice is voice, which translates nicely from writing novels to writing TV. But the process is different. You have a writer's room, people pitch you jokes and you collaborate. Jennifer Weiner
I was thinking about what I wanted to write next, after my first novel, and had decided that I wanted to write a story with a lot of strong female characters in it. Joan D. Vinge
I didn't want to write a biographie romancee especially since I already write novels, nor did I want to challenge the rules of the biography game, arbitrary as those rules might be. Edmund White
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 to change that. Nicholas Sparks
Sidney Sheldon quote: "When you write a movie, you have a hundred collaborators. But..."
When you write a movie, you have a hundred collaborators. But when you write a novel, it's yours. Sidney Sheldon
Octavia Butler quote: "Well, writing was what I wanted to do, it was always what I..."
Well, writing was what I wanted to do, it was always what I wanted to do. I had novels to write so I wrote them. Octavia Butler
I think I got spoiled and that writing a short story and getting it published, or writing a novel and getting it published, you pretty much get to do the first, second and third draft yourself without a whole lot of interference. John Sayles

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