Quotes About Writing

Actually, I enjoy the process of writing a big long novel.

Today I began the novel that I determined to be great.

And it is a folly to try to craft a novel for the screen, to write a novel with a screen contract in mind.

I took two years away from making films to write a novel.

When I start getting close to the end of a novel, something registers in the back of my mind for the next novel, so that I usually don't write, or take notes. And I certainly don't begin. I just allow things to percolate for a while.

So, I outlined a horror novel and started writing.

If you're writing a novel, you're in a room for three or four years. There's not much coming in from the outside.

There are hours when I must force the novel out of my mind and be interested in the children.

In a novel, on the other hand, you not only have to describe the rooms, but the clothes, the characters and what they are thinking. It's a much more in-depth process.

I had the notion that I wanted to write the great dirty American novel, so I went to Roanoke College on the GI Bill.

I'm working on a nonfiction book on Nepal and a novel about diasporas.

My family can always tell when I'm well into a novel because the meals get very crummy.

I really want to write a novel. I also want to learn to play the mandolin.

I've never abandoned the novel.

I wrote the worst novel ever.

Journalism can go right up to the door of the room in which the decisions are made. A novel can go inside the room - and inside the character's heads.

When I feel like being a director, I write a novel.

'Life of Pi' was actually a very simple novel to write.

Writing in a near frenzy is wonderful and freeing, but for me, it did not result in a nice, shiny novel. Instead, what I have is a mess.

Every decade of my life I attempted to write a novel. But I had nothing to say. I was far too self-absorbed, and now I realize I was writing for others, so that they'd applaud me, see my genius, tell me how wonderful I am, or be jealous of my success.

Writing in a near-frenzy is wonderful and freeing but, for me, it does not result in a nice shiny novel. Instead what I have is a mess.

A certain luxury when you get to writing a novel is to have the space to have your characters just banter.

Nothing beats novel writing because it's complete expression of you. You just control everything. Not even a movie director has that level of control.

Newt Gingrich wrote a novel, and he's a short story. Bill Clinton wrote a biography, and he's a novel.