“I started blogging in 2006 when I had sold my first novel but it had not yet been published, in those anxious months in between while I learned the whole process.” FirstsWholeProcessNovelMonthsAnxiousBlogging Author:Laini Taylor
“Don't talk to me any more about poetry for months -- unless it is other men's work. I really love verse, even rubbish. But I'm fearfully busy at a novel, and brush all the gossamer of verse off my face.” MenFacesNovelMonthsBusyVersesBrushesRubbishTalk To MeDon't Talk To Me Book:The Letters of D. H. Lawrence Source: The Letters of D. H. Lawrence
“After you've been working fairly intensively on a novel for six months you never want to see the damn thing again.” WantNovelMonthsSixDamnSix MonthsDamn Things Author:Terry Pratchett
“Usually, I start thinking about my next novel soon after completing the latest, and it can take anywhere from a month to 6 months to come up with a story.” ThinkingStoriesNextNovelMonthsCome UpCompleting Author:Nicholas Sparks
“The seriousness or otherwise of the subject matter is often irrelevent to the question of whether a book is any good. F Scott Fitzgerald wrote a great and beautiful novel which mainly involved shallow people going to parties in a rich guy's house. By contrast, all sorts of terrible books are published every month about men slaughtering people for no reason - a serious matter which, in itself, does not make the author worthy of serious consideration.” PeopleMenDoeBookMatterReasonBeautifulGuyHouseLanguagePartyNovelRichSubjectsSeriousMonthsInvolvedTerribleWorthyConsiderationNo ReasonContrastShallowSeriousnessSubject MatterScott Fitzgerald Author:Declan Lynch
“Never, if you can possibly help it, write a novel. It is, in the first place, a thoroughly unsocial act. It makes one obnoxious to one's family and to one's friends. One sits about for many weeks, months, even years, in the worst cases, in a state of stupefaction.” IfsWritingYearsFirstsStatesHelpingCasesNovelWeekWorstMonthsObnoxious Author:Pearl S. Buck
“Just about everything significant in my life happened after I passed forty. I was a housewife and mother, but yearned to be a writer. I worked at my writing whenever I could snatch a moment, and I assembled several manuscripts. I was just about forty when my first novel, East Wind, West Wind, was published. Then a few months later came The Good Earth. My career was launched at last, and it has given me the richest possible satisfaction” WritingFirstsMomentsEarthLastsMotherGivenCareersNovelHappenedWindMonthsWestSatisfactionEastSignificantFortyHousewifeManuscriptsLife HappensGood Earth Author:Pearl S. Buck
“I know I'll keep writing poems. That's the constant. I don't know about novels. They're hard. It takes so much concentrated effort. When I'm writing a novel it's pretty much all I can do. I get bored. It takes months. Movies do the same thing. It's all-encompassing. It feels like I'm going to end up writing poems, short stories and screenplays.” KnowsFeelsWritingI CanEndsHardStoriesCan DoEffortNovelMonthsConstantBoredShort StoryScreenplaysWriting Poems Author:Sherman Alexie
“Over a four-month period, I sat down and wrote every day. And then there was a novel, and all of a sudden, there were agents and offers.” NovelFourMonthsPeriodsOffersDown AndAgentsSat Author:Melissa Marr
“NaNo[ National Novel Writing Month] is an awesome opportunity to stretch your writing muscles and gives you permission to write in a way you probably wouldn't do in a normal circumstance.” WayGivingWritingOpportunityNovelMonthsCircumstancesNormalMusclesPermissionNovel WritingNano Author:Michelle J. Howard
“With the novels, I usually start from something in my own life that I can't resolve, so I turn it into a metaphor and for months or sometimes years I'll exhaust all of my emotional reaction to this issue by making it enormous on the page.” YearsI CanSometimesTurnsMy OwnNovelIssuesEmotionalMonthsPagesMetaphorEnormousReactionsResolveMy Own LifeEmotional Reactions Author:Chuck Palahniuk
“The process for writing a picture book is completely different from the process of writing a chapter book or novel. For one thing, most of my picture books rhyme. Also, when I write a picture book I'm always thinking about the role the pictures will play in the telling of the story. It can take me several months to write a picture book, but it takes me several years to write a novel.” ThinkingWritingYearsBookDifferentPlayStoriesProcessRolesNovelOne ThingMonthsTake MeChaptersRhymeAlways ThinkingPicture Books Author:Sarah Weeks
“I have time to write 1-2 novels per year, and get roughly novel-sized ideas every month. I have to perform triage on my own writing impulses.” WritingYearsIdeasMy OwnNovelMonthsImpulseTriage Author:Charles Stross
“With novels, you're sitting at a desk, alone, going slightly crazy, for anywhere from six months to a year with zero feedback.” YearsNovelCrazyMonthsSixSittingZeroDesksSix MonthsFeedback Author:Duane Swierczynski
“There's never any humongous next draft. I know a writer who every time he finished a novel - you would know his name very well - but his editor would come and live with him for a month. And they would go through the manuscript together.” KnowsWellsTogetherNextNamesNovelMonthsFinishedEditorsManuscripts Author:Dean Koontz
“After something crystallizes, I can write ferociously and write novels in six months, which in the past would have taken me two years.” WritingYearsI CanTwoPastNovelTakenMonthsSixTwo YearsSix Months Book:Conversations with Paul Auster Source: Conversations with Paul Auster
“I like movies. I've written screenplays as a sort of procrastination thing for me. Like I'll work for a couple months on this idea that's been kicking around and then like 30 pages in I'll just go try a novel because it's a lot easier. That's what I know. So why am I killing myself?” KnowsTryingIdeasNovelWrittenMonthsCoupleEasierPagesKillingProcrastinationScreenplaysKickingKilling Myself Author:Colson Whitehead