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Novel Writing Quotes (page 7)

In effect I am not a novelist, but rather a failed essayist who started to write novels because he didn't know how to write essays. Jose Saramago
Dean Koontz quote: "I never discuss a novel while I'm writing it, for fear that..."
I never discuss a novel while I'm writing it, for fear that talking about it will diminish my desire to write it. Dean Koontz
The most difficult novel I have had to write in terms of just getting it done was The Vampire Lestat. It took a year to write. Anne Rice
J. A. Jance quote: "I've been writing for a long time. I sat down to write my..."
I've been writing for a long time. I sat down to write my first novel in the middle of March of 1982. J. A. Jance
As an actor, there is room for a certain amount of creativity, but you're always ultimately going to be saying somebody else's words. I don't think I'd have the stamina, skill or ability to write a novel, but I'd love to write short stories and poetry, because those are my two passions. Daniel Radcliffe
It means that no matter what you write, be it a biography, an autobiography, a detective novel, or a conversation on the street, it all becomes fiction as soon as you write it down. Guillermo Cabrera Infante
Quentin Tarantino quote: "If I really considered myself a writer, I wouldn't be writing..."
If I really considered myself a writer, I wouldn't be writing screenplays. I'd be writing novels. Quentin Tarantino
I find interesting characters or lessons that resonate with people and sometimes I write about them in the sports pages, sometimes I write them in a column, sometimes in a novel, sometimes a play or sometimes in nonfiction. But at the core I always say to myself, 'Is there a story here? Is this something people want to read?' Mitch Albom
Lynn Abbey quote: "For me, writing a short story is much, much harder than..."
For me, writing a short story is much, much harder than writing a novel. Lynn Abbey
The painter paints, the musician makes music, the novelist writes novels. But I believe that we all have some influence, not because of the fact that one is an artist, but because we are citizens. As citizens, we all have an obligation to intervene and become involved, it's the citizen who changes things. I can't imagine myself outside any kind of social or political involvement. Jose Saramago
On November 18 of alternate years Mr Earbrass begins writing 'his new novel'. Weeks ago he chose its title at random from a list of them he keeps in a little green note-book. It being tea-time of the 17th, he is alarmed not to have thought of a plot to which The Unstrung Harp might apply. Edward Gorey
If I were to live a hundred years, and write three novels in each, I should never be so proud of any of them, as I am of Pickwick, feeling as I do, that it has made its own way, and hoping, as I must own I do hope, that long after my hand is withered as the pens it held, Pickwick will be found on many a dusty shelf with many a better work. Charles Dickens
It is a still stranger thing that there is nothing so delightful in the world as telling stories. It is far pleasanter than writing reviews of famous novels. Virginia Woolf
John C. Hawkes quote: "I began to write fiction on the assumption that the true..."
I began to write fiction on the assumption that the true enemies of the novel were plot, character, setting and theme. John C. Hawkes
If I'm reading something I happen to know and gets it wrong, I just don't trust the book any more. What I ask of a novel I'm reading is that it should know a fraction more about the things I know than I do. When I'm writing...I ask myself: would I be convinced by this if I read it? If I knocked against this bit of scenery, would it feel solid? Philip Pullman

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