#novel

The most difficult novel I have had to write in terms of just getting it done was The Vampire Lestat. It took a year to write. ↗

— Anne Rice

#done #getting #had #i #just

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. ↗

— Mordecai Richler

#four #much #novel #outside #room

Now as a musician, if you have it within you, you can create your own reality. Believe me, it's a novelty. ↗

— Chris Robinson

#create #me #musician #novelty #now

The very essence of the creative is its novelty, and hence we have no standard by which to judge it. ↗

— Carl Rogers

#creative #essence #hence #judge #novelty

I started writing short stories. I tried writing horror, mystery, science fiction. I joined a little critique group here in town and ran my stories past them. After about three years, I tackled my first novel, Subterranean. It took me 11 months to write. ↗

— James Rollins

#after #critique #fiction #first #group

Whenever I start a novel, I'm always looking for two things: a bit of science that makes me go 'what if?' and a piece of history that ends in a question mark. ↗

— James Rollins

#bit #ends #go #history #i

I wonder if novels work for women because they give us a safe place to talk about our ish. ↗

— Jennifer Weiner

#because #give #i #i wonder #novels

I developed the habit of writing novels behind a closed door, or at my uncle's, on the dining table. ↗

— Patrick White

#closed #developed #dining #door #habit

Aphorisms are bad for novels. They stick in the reader's teeth. ↗

— Anatole Broyard

#novels #reader #stick #teeth

It's with bad sentiments that one makes good novels. ↗