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Everyone thinks they're going to write one book of poems or one novel.
Marilyn Hacker

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

Around the time I turned 30, I wanted to publish a novel.
Sara Paretsky

The best project is one that asks a novel question.
Walter Gilbert

The novel is not so much a literary genre, but a literary space, like a sea that is filled by many rivers.
Jose Saramago

When I do a novel, I don't really use the script, I use the book; when I did Apocalypse Now, I used Heart of Darkness. Novels usually have so much rich material.
Francis Ford Coppola

When I'm working on a novel, I work 70-hour weeks.
Dean Koontz

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

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

I never discuss a novel while I'm writing it, for fear that talking about it will diminish my desire to write it.
Dean Koontz


I don't think anyone has written a great graphic novel.
Ted Rall

There is no other way of writing a novel than to begin at the beginning at to continue to the end.
C. S. Forester

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

SOON was the first novel where I used a rough outline. Usually I have characters and an idea and write as a process of discovery. Like working without a net.
Jerry B. Jenkins

In my personal life, I'm a comic novel. But then, so are we all, because we're human beings.
Dean Koontz

I was thinking about what I wanted to write next, after my first novel, and had decided that I wanted to write a story with a lot of strong female characters in it.
Joan D. Vinge

Good fiction must be entertaining, but what makes fiction special - and True - is that the realness of a novel allows it to carry a larger message.
Jerry B. Jenkins

Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself. You bring to a novel, anything you read, all your experience of the world. You bring your history and you read it in your own terms.
Angela Carter

I believe that the short story is as different a form from the novel as poetry is, and the best stories seem to me to be perhaps closer in spirit to poetry than to novels.
Tobias Wolff

The novel, for me, was an accident. I really don't consider myself a novelist.
Wole Soyinka

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