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“It's so easy to get into the same routine. A novel every two years; perhaps, improving technique. But I'm not interested in that. I'm interested in doing something fundamentally important--and therefore, it needs time. And what I've been doing, really, is avoiding this pressure to get into the habit of one novel a year. This is what is expected of novelists. And I have never been really too much concerned with doing what is expected of novelists, or writers, or artists. I want to do what I believe is important.”

“If I tried to write long-hand, I suppose I'd never finish a novel. I edit too much as I write - the paper would be "white-out" and sharpie marks. Writing with a computer works for me, so I stick with it.”

Ifs Writing Long Hands Would Be White Novel Too Much Paper Computer Mark Sticks Edits

Author:Nicholas Sparks

“A novel which has been too much worked over often goes flat, and no amount of laborious revision can take the place of careful planning beforehand.”

Has Beens Novel Too Much Amount Careful Planning Flats Revision Too Much Work Careful Planning

Book:Three Ways Home

Source: Three Ways Home

“almost all American writers tend to overwrite, to tell too much. I get the disillusioned feeling that novels, today, are sold by the pound, like groceries. It actually takes a great deal more discipline to be able to leave out rather than to throw in everything. This means that you have to say in one sentence precisely what you mean, instead of saying sort of what you kind of mean in hundreds of sentences and hoping the sum total will add up.”

Kind Mean Feelings Today Able Deals Novel Too Much Discipline Add Sentences Pounds Groceries Disillusioned One Sentence American Writer

Author:Rona Jaffe

“I like horror, but I tend to like it as seasoning. I'd get very bored if I was told I had to write a horror novel. I'd love to write a novel with horror elements, but too much, and it doesn't taste of anything else.”

Ifs Writing Novel Too Much Taste Horror Elements Bored Seasoning

Author:Neil Gaiman

“With relatively few exceptions, the novel sacrifices too much, for me, on the altar of plot.”

Novel Too Much Sacrifice Exception Plot Altars

Book:Reality Hunger

Source: Reality Hunger

“I always worry that knowing too much about a novel or a story early on in writing will close it down - it feels fatalistic in some way.”

Way Feels Writing Stories Worry Novel Knowing Too Much Knowing Too Much

Author:Dan Chaon

“Elena Ferrante is the author of several novels. There is nothing mysterious about her, given how she manifests herself - perhaps even too much - in her own writing, the place where her creative life transpires in absolute fullness.”

Writing Given Novel Creative Too Much Absolutes Mysterious Fullness Creative Life

Book:Frantumaglia: A Writer's Journey

Source: Frantumaglia: A Writer's Journey