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I love writing novels, even if only a few thousand people read them. Here's my soul; I hope it appeals to your soul. — Mark O'Donnell

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

I feel quite at home writing short stories but nervous and anxious when writing novels, as if the bad time of consecutive failures might arise again. — Charles Baxter

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

I'm looking forward to writing more novels for young adults. — Candace Bushnell

I had a romance novel inside me, but I paid three sailors to beat it out of me with steel pipes. — Patton Oswalt

I'd probably still be a financial journalist now if it weren't for writing novels. Mmm. Fun! I'm much happier writing novels! — Sophie Kinsella

I developed the habit of writing novels behind a closed door, or at my uncle's, on the dining table. — Patrick White

Writing novels is really all about making people think, and even more, making them feel things. — Mark Rubinstein

I wish Barry Lopez would write novels.
from Conversations with Jim Harrison — Jim Harrison

Writing is my number one passion. I've written two novels. I've written a screenplay. I also write short stories and poetry. — Evangeline Lilly

I'm writing a movie about Mozart going to New York in the '60s. I've been reading so many novels. — John Cale

If I wanted to be in movies, I'd have gone into scriptwriting: the fact that I write novels should be a big hint about what I prefer to do! — Charles Stross

When you grow up to be an author and write books, you'll think you're making the books up, but they'll all really be true, somewhere. — Diana Wynne Jones

Reading sparks writing. — A.D. Posey

One of my biggest goals, especially with writing YA novels, is just to have people enjoy reading. — Lauren Conrad

The average novel invariably reads like a detective's report. It is drab and tedious because it is never objective. — Soseki Natsume

For me, having it all is being paid to write novels. — Candace Bushnell

Writing a book is just reading one, except you get to choose the perfect ending everytime! — Jennifer Squyres

I'm writing novels because I found something I love because I tried it. Don't be afraid to shake it up. — Adriana Trigiani

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

Now that I was a novelist, I could not face the ignominy of failing to produce novels. — Thomas Keneally

The best of fiction, as we know, of course, doesn't tell the truth; it tales the truth. — Criss Jami

Writing novels takes up about 100% of my available working time. — Charles Stross

To the composition of novels and romances, nothing is necessary but paper, pens, and ink, with the manual capacity of using them. — Henry Fielding

What you keep alive is what you truly care about, no matter how many times you die in the process. — Shannon L. Alder

I'm not trying to write cinematic novels, but I have been told several times that my style is cinematic. — Nicholas Royle

I write my novels personally, desperately and non-negligently. When I write my novels, I think about my novels only, and never do other works. — Haruki Murakami

The easy answer is that writing novels is a lot more fun than practicing law. — Jeffery Deaver

I was a political journalist; I came to writing novels through an interest in politics and power. — Robert Harris

If a writer writes poems and short stories and novels, but nobody ever reads them, is she really a writer? — Jennifer Weiner

One good reason for writing novels based on your life is that you have something to read in old age when you've forgotten what happened. — Nina Bawden

Yes, I was good at reading people. I studied them so I could put them in my novels. — Jennifer Echols

I sometimes think it ironic for an ex-seaman, longshoreman, truck driver, policeman, bus driver, etc ... to find success writing children's novels. — Brian Jacques

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

Writing novels is where I'm most comfortable. It's a very intimate experience. — Matthew Nable

If everybody lived as I do, surely the writing of romance novels would never have come into being. — Albert Einstein

I don't read novels whilst I'm writing one; I just haven't got a wide enough brain to concentrate on incoming and outgoing in the same time zone. — Dawn French

Sometimes, I'm brave.
Sometimes, I'm just stubbron. — Nigia Stephens

All of fiction is truthful. What you create is your own truth and no one can take that away or change it. — Walter Dean Myers

I write novels about ordinary women who face seemingly insurmountable odds but through courage and determination find their heart's desire. — Francis Ray

Books are great for if you want to work on the craft of writing for yourself, or, you know, to write novels or indie films, stuff like that. — Thomas Lennon

I now understand that writing fiction was a seed planted in my soul, though I would not be ready to grow that seed for a long time. — Sue Monk Kidd

Life is like a friendship, eventually it will end, by conflict or God's hand"
-Sons In The Clouds — Randy Mitchell

Writing fiction is the act of weaving a series of lies to arrive at a greater truth. — Khaled Hosseini

Writing novels allows the novelist to spend much of his time in a fictional world, which is really the only or at least the most bearable place to be. — Javier Marias

I don't write fantasy, I write reality. Also, my novels have roots to Greek tragedies and as such, there has to be tragedy. — Nicholas Sparks

If I can keep writing just one good page a day, I will have 15 published novels in my expected lifetime. Tick, tick, tick... — Barry James Hickey

People without hope not only don't write novels, but what is more to the point, they don't read them. — Flannery O'Connor

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

I was writing novels in high school and apprenticed myself in a way both to Faulkner and to Hemingway. — Joyce Carol Oates

There are three secrets to writing a novel. Unfortunately nobody knows what they are. — W. Somerset Maugham

A good novel, one which entices the author as much as it beckons the reader. — W.J. Raymond

"It almost felt like the dolphin of my heart's desire playing in the ocean of my life." - on writing — Mariam Kobras

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

Build your novel one word at a time. Remember that minutes = novels. — Mercedes M. Yardley

In writing a novel, when in doubt, have two guys come through the door with guns. — Raymond Chandler

It is quite beneath the dignity of a person holding a Bachelor of Arts degree to engage in such a vulgar occupation as the writing of novels. — Fukuzawa Yukichi

Novels do take charge of the writer, and the writer is basically a kind of sheepdog just trying to keep things on track. — John Gregory Dunne

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

Do you write novels?" I said.
"Novels, Lord no," she said. "I can't even stay married. — Pam Houston

After something crystallizes, I can write ferociously and write novels in six months, which in the past would have taken me two years. — Paul Auster

Experiments with the "as if" of fiction are often more lively in poetry and criticism and other modes of writing than in weak short stories or novels. — Ben Lerner

Ideas take root at the oddest moments. Some grow into novels, the weaker ones wither and die. — Pippa DaCosta

I want a career writing these novels that I can be proud of. And then I want one as a screenwriter. — Stephan Pastis

He has a frightening aversion to text messaging in general.
"It's a phone. It's for making calls, not for writing novels". — Patrick Carman

Sure you can do anything when talking or writing, it's not like living when you can only do what you doing. — Sapphire.

I think the internet is a great marketing tool
but marketing is not my job. I'm a writer. My job is to write novels. — Bentley Little

I wanted to be a writer, but the idea of writing novels or movies seemed really intimidating. I never got more than a few pages into one. — Kurt Busiek

As a teenager, I wanted to write novels. By college, it was theater, plays, and then, shortly, it was film. — Richard Linklater

I started writing juvenile novels around 1985. I never really thought of it as a career, but more as a way to make a living. — Natsuo Kirino

In the end I write the novels I need to write when I need to write them. — Steve Erickson

Novels begin, not on the page, but in meditation and day-dreaming - In thinking, not writing. — Joyce Carol Oates

The most dangerous lie we tell ourselves is that writing novels shouldn't feel like a job. — Kameron Hurley

A good book is not the same as a successful one. — Johnny Rich

Old soldiers never die, they write novels. — James Jones

I don't write fantasy; I write historical novels about an imaginary place. — Raymond E. Feist

When I die I hope it may be said:
'Her suffering was black, but her books were read'. — Shannon L. Alder

Journalism is a team sport. Writing novels is golf: it's you and the ball. — Pete Hamill

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

I don't think I'm interested in writing women's novels anymore. — Carolyn See

Writing novels is the hardest thing I've ever done, including digging irrigation ditches. — Thomas Harris

After these three novels I gave up writing novels for a time; I was dissatisfied with romantic doom, yet didn't see much way around it. — Nicholas Mosley

Writing novels is the most exciting. — Sidney Sheldon

You mean you don't fit characters into a plot? excatly ... — John Geddes

Hollywood called just as I crested thirty. My novels did not and still do not interest them, but my writing ability did. — Rita Mae Brown

Try everything; listen to everyone. Follow no one. You are your own story guru! — Jeff Lyons

The only two kinds of books could earn an American writer a living are cookbooks and detective novels. — Rex Stout

Every time I complete a major project I reward myself with two full days of just reading and coffee! I do justify that it is my work! — Delia J. Colvin

From the beginning. I was a poem-writing child. I wrote little novels in my composition book when I was eight, nine years old. — Joan Larkin

Sometimes you can write about a character's day in under a minute and sometimes it takes a day just to write about a minute. — Jennifer V Clancy

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

My purpose in writing novels is to expose man's inhumanity to man. — Carly Compass

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

Writing novels is a way of living alternative lives. — Melvyn Bragg

On the whole, I think you should write biographies of those you admire and respect, and novels about human beings who you think are sadly mistaken. — Penelope Fitzgerald

I can write three novels in the time it takes to write one novella. I'm probably not going to go with that form again. — Nathan Lowell

Writing novels is not an illness that need be recovered from. It is my work; it is what I do. — Shannon Winslow

Writing novels worth reading will bugger up your mind, jeopardize your relationships, and distend your life. — David Mitchell

In writing, I'm totally anti-plans of any kind. All my attempts to plan and plot novels have come to grief, and in expensive ways. — Peter Temple