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 businessdialoguedirect Change image and share on social
Writing a novel is easier than writing a memoir; you are not constrained by the truth. Steve Bisley constraineasymemoir Change image and share on social
Writing a novel is like knocking on a door that will never open. You are so desperate to get in, you will say or do anything. You feel: please take my novel. Samantha Shannon desperatedoorfeel Change image and share on social
Writing a novel is like making love, but it's also like having a tooth pulled. Pleasure and pain. Sometimes it's like making love while having a tooth pulled. Dean Koontz lovemakepain Change image and share on social
Writing a novel is not at all like riding a bike. Writing a novel is like having to redesign a bike, based on laws of physics that you don't understand, in a new universe. So having written one novel does nothing for you when you have to write the second one. Daniel Alarcon basebikelaw share on social
Writing a novel is not merely going on a shopping expedition across the border to an unreal land: it is hours and years spent in the factories, the streets, the cathedrals of the imagination. Janet Frame bordercathedralexpedition Change image and share on social
Writing a novel is not method acting and I find it easy to step out of it at cocktail hour. Bret Easton Ellis actcocktaileasy Change image and share on social
Writing a novel is one of those modern rites of passage, I think, that lead us from an innocent world of contentment, drunkenness, and good humor, to a state of chronic edginess and the perpetual scanning of bank statements. J. G. Ballard bankchroniccontentment share on social
Writing a novel is so hard, and there are so many problems that the last thing you're thinking about is adapting this mess you have on your hands as a movie. You just want to get it to work as a novel. That's your main focus. Maria Semple adaptfocushand share on social
Writing a novel that crosses genres is a risk, but one well worth taking. Chet Williamson crossegenrerisk Change image and share on social
