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[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

I wish every American explored the importance of novel writing, identity, honesty, character and place in fresh-ass ways. — Kiese Laymon

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

One of the notebooks was for musings and pep talks. ... The other notebooks were for writing out the novel the way authors had done for centuries. — Gail Godwin

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

There was no romantic ending for Charlotte, but that's where writing your own novel can be so useful. — Catherine Lowell

Bear in mind that the novel
no matter how intimate, psychological, or subjective
is always an historical projection of its own time. — Samuel R. Delany

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

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

Novel writing is like heroin addiction; it takes everything you've got. — James N. Frey

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

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

My first novel is loaded with food references largely because my cupboards were bare, and I was writing hungry. — Jan Karon

People recover differently. Some change cities, some fall in love and some begin writing. — Kanza Javed

What we know about writing the novel is the novel. — Eudora Welty

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

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

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

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

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

People believe in everything except the reality. — Min Kim

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

I am writing my second novel for children for Simon and Schuster. — Marlee Matlin

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

After all this time I found that the novel is in fact punk rock. — Craig Ferguson

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