You're getting everyone's point of view at the same time, which, for me, is the perfect state for a novel: a cubist state, the cubist novel.
Michael Ondaatje

I enjoy research; in fact research is so engaging that it would be easy to go on for years, and never write the novel at all.
Helen Dunmore

The Butcher Boy is a very great novel indeed and a very important Irish novel. The ambiguity of that is, he's writing a book about an appalling situation and he does it in a hilarious way.
Stephen Rea

You no longer have much in the way of knowing what to do in a big, epic novel about the future, because nobody knows what the hell is going to happen.
Jerry Pournelle

My work schedule has changed over the years. The one constant is, when at work on a novel, I try to work seven days a week, so as not to lose touch with that world. Within that, I'm flexible on hours and output.
Donald E. Westlake

It seems to me that you would have to write a novel on a very small, intimate scale for it not to become political.
Jonathan Coe

I still write the occasional short story, and poked at a novel once, but it's just not what I want to do.
George Murray

So, I guess the answer to your question is very few people can bring off a novel of the future because it's just so damn hard to make it look like the future.
Jerry Pournelle

If you want to write the next great novel, but you think, No, this won't work because no one will buy it or it won't be any good, then you talk yourself out of taking a risk.
John Tesh

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

I can write for a long time on one novel and not get tired.
Judith Guest

It would be easier to write a novel without reader input, but I feel the fiction is richer for it.
Piers Anthony

I was very influenced by The Magic Mountain. It's a book that had a huge impact on me. I loved that as a shape for a novel: put a bunch of people in a beautiful place, give them all tuberculosis, make them all stay in a fur sleeping bag for several years and see what happens.
Ann Patchett

I see the poem or the novel ending with an open door.
Michael Ondaatje

I have likened writing a novel to going on a journey, with some notion of the destination I will arrive at, but not the whole picture - which emerges gradually as a series of revelations, as the journey goes along.
Rose Tremain

You want to suggest something new, but at the same time, resolve the drama of the action in the novel.
Michael Ondaatje

The thematic, psychological, and cultural concerns of a writer are more relevant than whatever literary mode he or she chooses to deal with in any given novel.
Norman Spinrad

Jigsaw Lady is the working title of a science fiction novel I've had in my head for darn near 15 years. I think I'll start work on it next year (in all my spare time) but I'd like to get it finished some day.
Raymond E. Feist

I could write an entertaining novel about rejection slips, but I fear it would be overly long.
Louise Brown

My dream was to be known as a writer and to be able to produce at least one book that would be read by people. That dream came true with the publication of my first novel - and all the rest has been a sweet bonus.
Robert Cormier