#novel

Every time that I write a novel I am convinced for at least two years that it is the last one, because a novel is like a child. It takes two years after its birth. You have to take care of it. It starts walking, and then speaking. ↗

— Umberto Eco

#am #because #birth #care #child

As an adolescent I wrote comic books, because I read lots of them, and fantasy novels set in Malaysia and Central Africa. ↗

— Umberto Eco

#africa #because #books #central #comic

I wrote a novel for my degree, and I'm very happy I didn't submit that to a publisher. I sympathize with my professors who had to read it. ↗

— David Eddings

#degree #had #happy #i #novel

Well I'm not a novelist. I've only written one book and that is a memoir. ↗

— Carly Fiorina

#i #memoir #novelist #only #well

In addition I wanted to write a Southern novel, because I'm a Southerner. ↗

— E. O. Wilson

#because #i #novel #southern #southerner

It's the technique, I think, of writing a novel that is difficult for a nonfiction writer. ↗

— E. O. Wilson

#fiction writer #i #i think #nonfiction #novel

A good novel editor is invisible. ↗

— Terri Windling

#good #invisible #novel

I take a lot from everywhere. I take from music, architecture, novels, and plays. Anywhere that hits you. ↗

— Alex Winter

#architecture #everywhere #hits #i #lot

I hated historical novels with fluttering cloaks. ↗

— Jeanette Winterson

#hated #historical #i #novels

Every author really wants to have letters printed in the papers. Unable to make the grade, he drops down a rung of the ladder and writes novels. ↗

— P. G. Wodehouse

#down #drops #every #grade #ladder