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When I sit down to write a novel I do not at all know, and I do not very much care, how it is to end. — Anthony Trollope

To write a novel, you need an iron butt. — Richard M. Nixon

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

You can't write ... on the strength of influence. You can only write a good story or a good novel by yourself. — Richard Ford

Write a page a day and you'll have a complete novel in year. — Harry Whittington

I'm working on a new novel, in its 3rd draft, but it's hard to write while doing 7th Heaven. — Stephen Collins

Screenwriting is a much more collaborative effort. When you write a novel, it's just you, with input from your editor. — Meg Cabot

When I write a novel, every word is mine. I welcome suggestions from my editor, but in the end, I make all the final decisions. — Louis Sachar

In addition I wanted to write a Southern novel, because I'm a Southerner. — E. O. Wilson

If you write a novel alone you sit and you weave a little narrative. And it's O.K., but it's of no account. — V.S. Naipaul

The writer's job is not to write a novel, hold it up and say, "Here I am," but to write a novel, hold it up and say, "Here YOU are. — Rita Mae Brown

I wanted to write a novel that would make others feel the history: the pain and fear that black people have had to live through in order to endure. — Octavia E. Butler

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

I've never yet managed to write a novel which didn't have an Indian central character. — Salman Rushdie

There's a story you write, there's a story you shoot and there's a story you cut. — Paul T. Scheuring

I wanted to write a novel. At 12 I knew, I am a writer. I said it to nobody. — Peter Bichsel

The impulse to write a novel comes from a momentary unified vision of life. — Angus Wilson

You never learn how to write a novel," he told me. "You only learn to write the novel you're on." He — Neil Gaiman

I had the notion that I wanted to write the great dirty American novel, so I went to Roanoke College on the GI Bill. — Tom T. Hall

Ever since I was in my teens I had plans at one point in my life to write a novel. — Jo Nesbo

To be motivated to write a novel, I need to be unable not to write. — Johnny Rich

It's important to write a mystery novel where the takeaway is not a giveaway - where something could be read over and over. — Jimenez Lai

A novel must be judged on its merits, not on how hard the journey was to write it. — Johnny Rich

I still write the occasional short story, and poked at a novel once, but it's just not what I want to do. — George Murray

It's not as though I decided to sit down and write a mystery novel so I could capitalize on my parents' success. — Jesse Kellerman

I never conceived of not writing a novel. I believed - oh, God, I believed, it was an article of faith! - I was born to write a novel. — Cynthia Ozick

It seems to me that you would have to write a novel on a very small, intimate scale for it not to become political. — Jonathan Coe

I'm not looking to write the great American novel, win a Pulitzer or teach history. I write to entertain my readers. — Dorothy Garlock

Readers would email me and say, 'Please write a novel about so-and-so,' but it has to come from yourself and not so much from your readership. — Susan Vreeland

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

To write a novel in the heart of London is next to an impossibility. I feel as if I were nailing a flag to the top of a mast in a raging gale. — Virginia Woolf

When I'm working on a novel, I generally do write every day, but in between those marathons, I take breaks. My brain needs time to recharge. — Marie Brennan

Life is God's novel. Let him write it. — Isaac Bashevis Singer

There's nothing worse than sitting down to write a novel and saying, 'Well, okay, I'm going to do something of high artistic worth.' — Douglas Adams

I move between the two: I write an adult novel, and then I write a children's book. I quite enjoy that. It's a nice change of pace each time. — John Boyne

Maybe I'll write a novel, I thought. And then I did. — Charles Bukowski

When you write a novel you have to live with the characters for a long time. So I prefer short stories. I never wrote anything more than 250 pages. — Ruskin Bond

When you write a novel, you make other people see your imaginary friends. — Tayari Jones

Don't try to write a novel. Write short stories and then figure out how to connect them. — Ray Bradbury

Is it possible to write a reverent novel," said Nassrin, "and to have it be good? ... — Azar Nafisi

For me, the main inspiration to write a story or novel is the voice of its central character, or the narrative voice of the story itself. — Scott Bradfield

I would never re-write you. You are by far my most complete and greatest novel. — Virginia Woolf

It's a lot to expect of yourself, to write a novel in a year. Anyway, you don't write a novel, you write a scene, and then another scene. — Janet Fitch

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

The same parts of my brain get as excited as when I study bio or read a novel and write a paper on it. — Utada Hikaru

It takes a long time to write a novel when you have to keep interrupting your work to earn money. — Dana Spiotta

I don't write a novel every two years. — Jayne Anne Phillips

When I sit down to write a novel, I am exploring my own relationship with God, with the struggle between good and evil, my own purpose. — Ted Dekker

I might just write a novel next. I don't know! — Frank Ocean

I'll write to you. A super-long letter, like in an old-fashioned novel — Haruki Murakami

Since I can't write the greatest American novel, I'm going to write the longest American novel. — Thomas Steinbeck

The best way to write a novel is to do it behind your own back. — China Mieville

The sound of words in a novel is a pretty amazing thing, and I am concerned with the sound of every word I write. — Jamaica Kincaid

It would be easier to write a novel without reader input, but I feel the fiction is richer for it. — Piers Anthony