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The hardest thing about writing a novel is getting it published. — Marianne Cushing

[A young adult novel] ends not with happily ever after, but at a new beginning, with the sense of a lot of life yet to be lived. — Richard Peck

Every story we remember is a novel. Novels make things more universal. — Dave Eggers

I always knew writing a novel was a great thing. — James Salter

I don't talk about my books while I'm writing them: not even my husband knows what a novel's about until it's done. — Sarah Dessen

When you are writing a novel, you aren't making it up. The story is already there. You just have to find it. — Thomas Harris

Want to know what it feels like when your soul bleeds? Write a novel. — Carl Henegan

Oh you know, I've been writing a novel. — Jarvis Cocker

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

It's the technique, I think, of writing a novel that is difficult for a nonfiction writer. — E. O. Wilson

A novel is no different than graffiti in a bathroom stall, it's just more pretentious. — Christy Leigh Stewart

To remain pure, a novel has to cast a moral puzzle. Anything else is mere negotiation. — Anita Brookner

In my experience, writing a novel tends to create its own structure, its own demands, its own language, its own ending. — Don DeLillo

Writing a novel, I am making is an object that has a life and identity of its own, apart from me. — Jay Neugeboren

My father was a frustrated writer. I think he wanted to write the great American novel. — Anne Waldman

Two characters and sexy banter do not a book make, damn it. — Sherry Thomas

Just about everybody has written a first novel that they throw away before writing their actual first novel. — Daniel Handler

Reshuffllng of thoughts - facilitates a refreshed perspective to a mental deadlock! — Deeba Salim Irfan

Everyone my age had written a novel and I was still having difficulty writing a paragraph. — Ernest Hemingway,

The novel is a territory where one does not make assertions; it is a territory of play and of hypotheses. — Milan Kundera

The most exciting part of writing a novel is when the characters take control of the story — Brandt Legg

Novelist: A person who has more than a dozen novels in the works and thinks it would be novel to finish one. — Michael Kroft

She could not see what good it would do anyone to read a novel of this kind. Yet she was writing it. — Doris Lessing

A novel must give a sense of permanence as well as a sense of life. — E. M. Forster

Every great novel begins with a single word. One word, followed by another and another and another. Sentences forming paths to that dream. — Pamela Morris

Writing a novel is a lot like directing a movie because you are creating a world and a tone, you are creating a large canvas and all the details. — Stephen Chbosky

I had just begun an M.A. in Creative Writing, and I had to write a novel, so I began writing a novel that later became 'A Life Apart.' — Neel Mukherjee

It doesn't take five novels to become a great writer ... it takes one novel rewritten five different times. — B. Chancellor Burgweger

I'm never interested in writing a kind of neutral, universal novel that could be set anywhere. To me, the novel is a local thing. — Zadie Smith

The only justification for writing a novel is that it should be wonderful. Adequate is inadequate. — Janet Burroway

Most times, my mind is just an ongoing, present-tense, first-person monologue. It's like I'm writing a novel, constantly, but only in my brain. — Andrew Shaffer

England offers new comforts. I could write a novel there. — Sylvia Plath

To this day, 'The Duke and I' remains particularly close to my heart; I felt it was the novel in which my writing took a huge leap forward. — Julia Quinn

I met a man at a party. He said "I'm writing a novel" I said "Oh really? Neither am I. — Peter Cook

Ironically, writing a novel is not a way to sort out your confusion. — Curtis Sittenfeld

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

I never write the storyline ahead of the novel and stick to it like glue. I prefer my writing to be organic. It takes on a life of it's own. — Airam

It's such a confidence trick, writing a novel. The main person you have to trick into confidence is yourself. This is hard to do alone. — Zadie Smith

I write whenever it suits me. During a creative period I write every day; a novel should not be interrupted. — Francois Mauriac

I set out to write a screenplay but, since my early 20s, had dreamed of writing a novel. — Graeme Simsion

When I was young I longed to write a great novel that should win me fame. Now that I am getting old my first book is written to amuse children — L. Frank Baum

Writing a novel is easier than writing a memoir; you are not constrained by the truth. — Steve Bisley

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

I've got an original graphic novel called 'The Indian and the Bandit' that I'm writing with a childhood friend. — Michael McMillian

Writing a novel about World War II and the French Resistance was a challenge both sobering and thrilling. — Bobbie Ann Mason

A great novel is worth one thousand films. — Oscar Hijuelos

For me, writing a novel is like solving a puzzle. But I don't intend my novels as puzzles. I intend them as invitations to dance. — Mohsin Hamid

...in search of my creative muse while writing a novel. — Atlas Brown

I think the trick of writing a good picture book manuscript is to leave that space for illustration. An illustrated novel can do the same thing. — Mac Barnett

One of the ready advantages of writing a road or quest story is that it mirrors the experience of writing a novel. — Chang-rae Lee

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 told you; I am Arianna, the Siren, your Guardian, and how is a Guardian supposed to do her job if she is clueless about the Guardianee? — Erica Sehyun Song

Writing a page each day doesn't seem like much, but do it for 365 days and you have enough to fill a novel. — Austin Kleon

The best way to keep your house spotless is to begin writing a novel. — Jen Knox

The desire to write a novel is the single required prerequisite for writing a novel. — Jane Smiley

Writing a story is kind of like surfing, as opposed to the novel, where you use a GPS to get somewhere. With surfing, you kind of jump. — Etgar Keret

The three rules to writing a novel;

1) Write
2) Write more
3) Keep writing — Sci Furz

When I was 22 years old, I thought girls would like me if I wrote a novel. I spent so much time writing that I was thrown out of graduate school. — James Altucher

I read all the time. Sometimes I get asked if I've thought about writing a novel. — Noah Baumbach

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

The disgusting face of things alone was not enough for writing a novel: without imagination it would seem not a true face but a mask. — Elena Ferrante

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

Writing a long novel is like survival training. Physical strength is as necessary as artistic sensitivity. — Mohsin Hamid

Writing a novel without being asked seems a bit like having a baby when you have nowhere to live. — Lucy Ellmann

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

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

The business of writing a novel is a long, meandering road into the self, into the imagination. And it's a road the writer travels alone. — Lisa Unger

We all have a book in us. The first step is recognising this. Writing it is a whole new journey. — Kathryn Joyce

Many modern novels have a beginning, a muddle and an end. — Philip Larkin

The difference between fanfic and a "real" novel is that fanfic is honest about its inspiration. — Mary Robinette Kowal

If I had simply wanted to trade on an insult to Islam, I could have done it in a sentence rather than writing a 250,000-word novel, a work of fiction. — Salman Rushdie

Writing a novel is like going a great distance to take a small shit. — Harlan Ellison

While writing a novel I almost completely stop reading books in the same sub-genre for the duration. — Charles Stross

When you're writing a novel, you're still telling a story. But you're telling it very differently. It's a craft like anything else. — Howard Gordon

I spent four of my five years at Stanford writing a novel I was unable to sell. — Scott Turow

You must understand that when you are writing a novel you are not making anything up. It's all there and you just have to find it. — Thomas Harris

Actually, I enjoy the process of writing a big long novel. — Donna Tartt

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

Writing a novel is an intense and lonely business, but you have the reward at the end of a very direct dialogue between you and the reader. — Neil Cross

Then I decided I would spend the summer writing a novel.
That would fix a lot of people. — Sylvia Plath

My writing often contains souvenirs of the day - a song I heard, a bird I saw - which I then put into the novel. — Amy Tan

Some things are just like riding a bicycle; you jump on, pedal, and hope you don't fall. — Henry Mosquera

It's a great euphoria when you reach that writing zone. — Paul T. Scheuring

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

I think it took me half a page of 'Wolf Hall' to think: 'This is the novel I should have been writing all along.' — Hilary Mantel

When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature. — Ernest Hemingway,

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

Nothing beats novel writing because it's complete expression of you. You just control everything. Not even a movie director has that level of control. — Tom Perrotta

A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author. — G.K. Chesterton

I've never taken any classes or had formal training in writing novels. At its most basic, I learned how to structure a novel. — Dennis Green

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

While writing a novel, I don't read anything new in fiction. I am too engrossed. — Jane Gardam

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

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

Drawing and painting is like a quickie in bed. Were as novel writing is a long term relationship, much more fulling. — Tara Dobbs

You never finish writing a novel, you eventually abandon it. — Tom Winton

A novel is a writer's rant disguised as entertainment ... — James Minter

When one is writing a novel in the first person, one must be that person. — Daphne Du Maurier

When I was 23 and about to go to law school, I thought I'd spend the summer writing a novel. — John Casey