Quotes About Writing

It wasn't until I was 35 or 36, when I wrote 'Danny and the Deep Blue Sea,' that I began to get some notoriety, though I only made $5,000.

Nothing induces me to read a novel except when I have to make money by writing about it. I detest them.

Every journalist has a novel in him, which is an excellent place for it.

Since I have come to America, I am often asked whether my next novel will be set in America. I don't think it will. I think I will be living in America for some time to come, but while living in America, I would like to write about Japanese society from the outside.

If you do a certain amount of work every day, it will eventually become a novel.

When one is writing a novel in the first person, one must be that person.

A novel is often a longer process in handling self-doubt.

Writing doesn't come real easy to me. I couldn't write a novel in a year. It wouldn't be readable. I don't let an editor even look at it until the second year, because it would just scare them. I just have to trust that all these scraps and dead-ends will find a way.

I might just write a novel next. I don't know!

When I began to write seriously, 40 years ago now, my chosen form was the novel.

Usually after finishing a novel, I have a head full of bad ideas for the next one.

I completed my first novel when I was 19 years old.

A good novel is a good novel, pointe finale. And I think what I'm writing is exactly that.

If I had to write a novel, I'd start crying after three lines.

In the early Seventies, I started writing a little autobiographical novel about my childhood - I made it into a mystery story.

Although a novel takes place in the larger world, there's always some drive in it that is entirely personal - even if you don't know it while you're doing it.

I always wanted to use my newspaper background in a novel.

I wanted to write a big novel, something epic in scale.

I think each time you start a story or novel or whatever, you are absolutely at the bottom of the ladder all over again. It doesn't matter what you've done before.

Everything in a novel has to be intentional, even the things that aren't.

Remember that a good football novel has to have the same ingredients as any other good novel: drama, convincing and interesting characters, a strong story-line, and some kind of magic in the writing.

It's not a good idea to put your wife into a novel; not your latest wife anyway.

I can't understand why a person will take a year to write a novel when he can easily buy one for a few dollars.

My first novel took 12 years to complete because life got in my way.