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Working on the plot/story idea for my next novel ... It always takes time. — Nicholas Sparks

A novel determines its own size and shape and I've never tried to stretch an idea beyond the frame and structure it seemed to require. — Don DeLillo

I was twenty-seven when I came up with the idea for my first novel. — Jane Green

The idea to make hotel reviews the form of the novel came first.So I just started writing hotel reviews and tried to come up with a consistent voice. — Rick Moody

For me, a novel relying too heavily on a single idea might be a dry, deadly thing unless it possesses an animating force. — Meg Wolitzer

I think I would explode in flames of irony if I were to option an idea that I was satirizing in a novel. — Jess Walter

Hmmm," he said. "Quite a novel idea, I must say. But hardly conducive to a bestselling, tell-all, no-holds-barred biography. — Alan Bradley

I have an idea for a new book. It's a novel about a beautiful yet sensitive author whose spirit is crushed by her domineering editor. Do you like it? — Annie Barrows

A Hot Fudge Sundae and a trashy novel is my idea of heaven. — Barbara Walters

I've never discovered the idea for my next novel while I was still working on the current novel. Other writers don't suffer this. — James Thayer

The problem with thinking up a new and original idea within a novel is that you have to make sure that Kurt Vonnegut did not already think of it. — Meena Kandasamy

How to start new novel: stare at blank doc, get coffee, stare, check facebook, stare, crack knuckles, stare, tweet, you get the idea... — Mary C. Moore

It's not a good idea to put your wife into a novel; not your latest wife anyway. — Norman Mailer

A creative idea will be defined simply as one that is both novel and useful or influential in a particular social setting. — Alice Weaver Flaherty

But if you needed to HAVE AN IDEA, boredom could be to a roadblocked novel what chemotherapy was to a cancer patient. — Stephen King

The whole process of writing a novel is having this great, beautiful idea and then spoiling it. — Diane Johnson

My illusion, the idea of a soul mate, was so entrenched in my fantasy that the thought of letting him go, wrecked me. — M.R. Field

My experience is that an original and compelling idea for a novel is a rare thing. — James Thayer

If only a group of people were more important to me than the idea of a Novel, I might begin a novel. — Sylvia Plath

here's the thing: However attractive the idea of a writer's retreat may sound, having all day to poke around on a novel actually hampers productivity. — Chris Baty

If a theme or idea is too near the surface, the novel becomes simply a tract illustrating an idea. — Elizabeth Bowen

Life is like a novel. It's filled with suspense. You have no idea what is going to happen until you turn the page. — Sidney Sheldon

An idea you have might not be original. But by creating a novel out of that idea you can make it original. — Umberto Eco

I get up in the morning with an idea for a three-volume novel and by nightfall it's a paragraph in my column. — Don Marquis

Healthy curiosity is a great key in innovation. — Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

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

When I start writing a novel, I have no sense of direction, no idea, really nothing. — William Gibson

I write short stories when a little idea occurs to me, that I know isn't a part of a novel that will stand by itself and should be concentrated. — Roddy Doyle

Our original idea was to write a book titled Fifty Shades of the Hunger Games, by J.K. Rowling with Stephen King: A John Grisham Novel. — Dave Barry

Don't be offended if you encounter some good-natured ribbing; the idea of
writing a novel in a month deserves to be laughed at. — Chris Baty