182 Quotes About Novel-writing

Most of the people readily accept the principle but resist its practice.

Words are better than weapons, wisdom is better than war.

Action achieves ambition.

The world is administered by rich but it is constructed by poor.

My spouse is my shield, my spouse is my strength.

Whoever defined fiction as an untrue event owe us an apology for fiction lives in me; fiction lives in us.

Every event is a resource material.

As you write your novel, you gradually start thinking like some of your characters in it. And at times the writer may lose himself completely in some character.

Writing a novel is like a two-year love affair. The novel has a formation period ranging from instantaneous falling-in-love to decades. It then generally takes a year or two to write, during which it is consuming, riveting, and eventful. Once done, there is a recovery period. No other story can enter; one must use the hole left behind as a time of settling and reformation. When ready, we can move on, although, the essence of the experience will remain with us forever.