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“Writing a novel is always complicated, it's not like you snap your fingers and go, 'Ah, I know what I'll write'. For me, a lot of the time, I have to write and as I write, I learn about the story.”

Knows Writing Stories Novel Like You Fingers Complicated Snaps

Author:Reif Larsen

“Writing a novel is an act of self-annihilation as much as self-discovery. You can kill whole appetites and flood whole depths while plumbing them, but if you are serious about it you also get to put something into the world that wasn't quite there before.”

Ifs World Writing Self Whole Novel Serious Discovery Depth Self Discovery Appetite Flood Annihilation Plumbing

Author:Andrew O'Hagan

“Writing a novel is an incredibly free experience. One puts one's self in a narrative mode. You can go off in any direction - the past, the future, or go laterally, or include one's own beliefs. It's total freedom.”

Writing Self Past Belief Novel Narrative

Author:David Mamet

“Writing a novel is easy… writing checks is hard.”

Writing Novel Checks

Author:Michael J. Kannengieser

Source: The Daddy Rock

“Writing a novel is like an amusement park or a museum or a city. You go into that place and you have certain experiences and those experiences, hopefully, have some impact on you.”

Writing Certain Cities Novel Impact Hopefully Parks Museums Amusement Amusement Parks

Author:Mohsin Hamid

“Writing a novel is like building a wall brick by brick; only amateurs believe in inspiration.”

Writing Believe Inspiration Novel Building Wall Construction Bricks

Author:Frank Yerby

“Writing a novel is like childbirth: once you realize how awful it really is, you never want to do it again.”

Want Writing Realizing Novel Awful Childbirth

Author:Sarah Dessen

“Writing a novel is like driving a car at night. You can only see as far as the headlights but you can make the whole trip that way.”

Inspirational Quote

Author:E.L.Doctorow

“Writing a novel is like driving a car at night. Sometimes you run over a drunk who's lain down and fallen asleep on the warm pavement. I mean, do you keep going, or what?”

Writing Mean Sometimes Running Night Novel Car Down And Warm Driving Drunk Fallen Keep Going Pavement

Author:E. L. Doctorow

“Writing a novel is like going a great distance to take a small shit.”

Writing Humor

Author:Harlan Ellison

“Writing a novel is like having a dream.”

Writing Dream Novel Haruki Murakami

Author:Haruki Murakami

“Writing a novel is like heading out over the open sea in a small boat. It helps, if you have a plan and a course laid out.”

Ifs Writing Helping Courses Novel Plans Sea Boat Headings Fiction Writing Writers And Writing Writing Fiction Writing By Writers

Author:John Gardner

“Writing a novel is like knocking on a door that will never open. You are so desperate to get in, you will say or do anything. You feel: please take my novel.”

Feels Writing Novel Doors Please Desperate Knocking

Author:Samantha Shannon

“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.”

Love Writing Sometimes Pain Literature Pleasure Novel Teeth Making Love Pain And Pleasure

Author:Dean Koontz

“Writing a novel is like traveling the universe on foot.”

Writing Novel Novel Writing On Writing A Book On Writing Fiction

Author:Dennis R. Miller

“Writing a novel is like trying to solve a jigsaw puzzle whose pieces aren't even fixed in shape. Yet, somehow, they all come together in the end to form the complete picture.”

Writing Novel Puzzle

Author:Jyoti Arora

Source: Dream's Sake

“Writing a novel is like trying to solve a very long mathematical equation. Changing anything can change everything else.”

Writing Trying Long Novel Solve Mathematical Equations Mathematical Equations

Author:Carl Sagan

“Writing a novel is like working on foreign policy. There are problems to be solved. It's not all inspirational.”

Writing Problem Novel Policy Foreign Policy

Author:James M. Cain

“Writing a novel is not merely going on a shopping expedition across the border to an unreal land: it is hours and years spent in the factories, the streets, the cathedrals of the imagination.”

Writing Years Hours Imagination Novel Streets Land Borders Shopping Factories Workplace Unreal Cathedrals Expeditions

Author:Janet Frame

Source: An Angel at My Table: The Complete Autobiography

“Writing a novel is not method acting and I find it easy to step out of it at cocktail hour.”

Writing Easy Hours Acting Steps Novel Method Drinking Cocktails Method Acting

Author:Bret Easton Ellis

“Writing a novel is not so much a project as a journey, a voyage, an adventure.”

Writing Novel Journey Adventure Projects Voyages

Author:Tom Robbins

“Writing a novel is one of those modern rites of passage, I think, that lead us from an innocent world of contentment, drunkenness, and good humor, to a state of chronic edginess and the perpetual scanning of bank statements.”

Thinking World Writing States Novel Modern Statements Innocent Contentment Passages Perpetual Drunkenness Rite Good Humor Rite Of Passage Scanning Edginess

Author:J. G. Ballard

“Writing a novel proved to be the hardest, most self-analyzing task I had ever attempted, far worse than an autobiography: and its rewards were greater than I expected.”

Writing Self Novel Greater Tasks Rewards Expected Hardest Autobiography Analyzing

Author:Dick Francis

“Writing a novel resembles a journey with only the sketchiest of maps.”

Writing Novel Journey

Author:Ian Mcewan

“Writing a novel that works is an extremely difficult thing to do. It requires a level of skill and dedication that always surprises me.”

Writing Difficult Levels Novel Skills Surprise Things To Do Dedication Difficult Things Surprise Me

Author:Bret Easton Ellis

“Writing a novel was like I had some Play-Doh to work with and could just keep working with it - doing a million drafts and things changing radically and characters appearing and disappearing and solving mysteries: Why is this thing here? Should I just take that away? And then realizing, no, that is there, in fact, because that is the key to this. I love that sort of detective work, keeping the faith alive until all the questions have been sleuthed out.”

Writing Character Realizing Novel Mystery Disappear Things Change

Author:Miranda July

“Writing a novel without being asked seems a bit like having a baby when you have nowhere to live.”

Writing Seems Girl Bits Women Novel Baby Having A Baby Baby Girl

Author:Lucy Ellmann

“Writing a novel, I am making is an object that has a life and identity of its own, apart from me.”

Writing Novel Identity Objects

Author:Jay Neugeboren

“Writing a novel, in an unplanned and unpredictable way, makes you engaged; it takes you into yourself, and it becomes something between you and the character for a moment, and then you move back into the structure of the book. I love those moments, because they are completely unbidden.”

Way Writing Book Moments Character Moving Novel Structure Engaged Unpredictable

Author:David Bezmozgis

“Writing a novel- actually picking the words and filling in paragraphs- is a tremendous pain in the ass. Now that TV's so good and the Internet is an endless forest of distraction, it's damn near impossible. That should be taken into account when ranking the all-time greats. Somebody like Charles Dickens, for example, who had nothing better to do except eat mutton and attend public hangings, should get very little credit.”

Should Writing Littles Pain Novel Taken Impossible Example Tvs Internet Accounts Credit Endless Forests Ass All Time Damn Distraction Filling Paragraph Dickens Ranking Filling In Mutton

Author:Steve Hely

“Writing a page a day doesn't seem like much, but do it for 365 days and you have enough to fill a novel.”

Writing Austin Kleon Steal Like An Artist

Author:Austin Kleon

Source: Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative

“Writing a personal essay or memoir addresses how a person thinks and behaves in the context of society’s prevailing moral and ethical codes, informal rules, laws, and customs. A self-ethnographer emphasis what he or she considers important regarding how people perceive and categorize the world, their meaning for behavior, how they imagine and explain things, and ascertaining what has meaning for them. Expository writing, a discursive examination of a broad field of subjects, is one method of cohering the dimensions of a person’s emic and etic thoughts and a linked series of memorable events into a unified personal ideology how to live a purposeful life. In cultural anthropology, the emic approach focuses on what people of a local culture think and how they interpret events whereas the etic approach takes a more objective view of how an outsider evaluates the behavior and customs of a culture. Usage of both emic and etic analysis provides the richest description of a cultural or a society in which the personal essayist operates within.”

Writing Memoir Autobiography Writing Process Essayist Essay Writing Personal Essay

Author:Kilroy J. Oldster

Source: Dead Toad Scrolls

“Writing a picture book is like writing 'War and Peace' in Haiku.”

Writing Book War Haiku Picture Books

Author:Mem Fox

“Writing a play is like smashing that [glass] ashtray, filming it in slow motion, and then running the film in reverse, so that the fragments of rubble appear to fly together. You start - or at least I start - with the rubble.”

Writing Play Running Together Film Glasses Reverse Fragments Smashing Rubble Slow Motion Ashtrays

Author:Tom Stoppard

“Writing a play, you start with less, so more is demanded of you. It's as if you have to not only write a symphony, but invent the instruments as well.”

Ifs Writing Wells Play Instruments Theatre Symphony

Author:David Ives

“Writing a poem ... is a kind of possible love affair between something like the heart (that courageous but also shy factory of emotion) and the learned skills of the conscious mind.”

Writing Mind Heart Kind Emotion Skills Conscious Affair Shy Courageous Factories Love Affair Conscious Mind Possible Love

Author:Mary Oliver

Source: A Poetry Handbook

“Writing a poem is a lesson in the truest empathy. And to truly have empathy is to truly know power, or at least the only kind of power I’m interested in.”

Knows Writing Kind Lessons Empathy Truest

Author:Zachary Schomburg

“Writing a poem is a more personal experience, I think, than writing prose. And perhaps reading a poem is a more personal experience than reading prose, though that's harder to say.”

Thinking Writing Reading Prose

Author:Nick Laird

“Writing a poem is always a process of subtracting: you start with all of language available to you, and you choose a smaller field.”

Writing Language Process Fields Available You Choose

Author:Matthea Harvey

“Writing a poem is discovering.”

Writing Discovering

Author:Robert Frost

“Writing a poem is like having an affair, a one-night stand; a short story is a romance, a relationship; a novel is a marriage-one has to be cunning, devise compromises, and make sacrifices.”

Writing Stories Romance Night Novel Sacrifice Affair Compromise Short Story Cunning One Night One Night Stand

Author:Amos Oz

“Writing a poem is like losing yourself to nature, finding yourself with the words.”

Poetic Truth

Author:Hema Chhetri

Source: Regrets-All you need to know one's true value

“Writing a poem is making music with words and space.”

Writing Space

Author:Arnold Adoff

“Writing a poem is unwriting a knot, like untying a shoelace that is clubbing your foot.”

Writing Feet Knots Shoelaces

Author:Shirley Geok-lin Lim

“Writing a portable OS is not much harder than a nonportable one, and all systems should be written with portability in mind these days.”

Should Writing Mind Written Harder These Days Portability

Author:Andrew S. Tanenbaum

“Writing a really general parser is a major but different undertaking, by far the hardest points being sensitivity to context and resolution of ambiguity.”

Writing Different Majors Hardest Resolution Sensitivity Ambiguity Undertakings

Author:Graham Nelson

“Writing a record is like dating a few men at once. You take them to the same restaurants to see if they measure up, and at some point you decide who you like best.”

Ifs Men Writing Records Dating Restaurants

Author:Lady Gaga

“Writing a screen play with a group of collaborators is like the Lennon McCartney collaboration .... sometimes one or two people do more than others on certain parts of the process and vice versa.”

People Writing Two Sometimes Play Certain Process Groups Vices Screens Collaboration Vice Versa Collaborators Lennon

Author:Peter Jackson

“Writing a screenplay is like climbing a mountain. When you’re climbing, all you can see is the rock in front of you and the rock directly above you. You can’t see where you’ve come from or where you’re going.”

Writing Rocks Fronts Mountain Climbing Screenplays Climbing Mountain

Author:Syd Field

“Writing a screenplay is like writing a big puzzle, and so the hardest part, I think, is getting the story.”

Thinking Writing Stories Bigs Hardest Puzzles Screenplays

Author:Grant Heslov

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