182 Quotes About Novel-writing

I had come to the conclusion - based on experience - that the only real way of learning to write a novel was probably to write a novel.

While I was in the research field in 1929, the idea of Jonah's Gourd Vine came to me. I had written a few short stories, but the idea of attempting a book seemed so big that I gazed at it in the quiet of the night, but hid it away from even myself in daylight.

Una novela no es buena ni por su contenido ni por como lo cuenta -dos supersticiones-, sino porque su alquimia resultó permanente sin que el autor lo mereciera. No se explica, no tiene fórmula, es pura voluntad de existencia, pulsión de vida

Sometimes, getting in touch with reality is harder than reality itself.

Novels are about exploring unexplored territory in the human experience or, at least, drawing new maps of old lands.

Put aside all the things they deem "wrong" and simply write. Conscious writing comes from within, so at the end of the day, its your "word" not theirs.

That afternoon, I tried to understand if I had made a choice about what to write. But instead it seemed to me if anyone had made a choice, the novel had, choosing me like I was a door and walking through me out into the world.

No matter how long a novel or how long a story, one sentence can give those novel's or story's knowledge .

The first line of a novel is the pinhead upon which the great structure will stand or fall.