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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
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
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
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
Yes, I was good at reading people. I studied them so I could put them in my novels.
— Jennifer Echols
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
If everybody lived as I do, surely the writing of romance novels would never have come into being.
— Albert Einstein
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
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
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
"It almost felt like the dolphin of my heart's desire playing in the ocean of my life." - on writing
— Mariam Kobras
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
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 toolbut marketing is not my job. I'm a writer. My job is to write novels. — Bentley Little
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
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
It doesn't take five novels to become a great writer ... it takes one novel rewritten five different times.
— B. Chancellor Burgweger
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
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
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
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
