When I'm working on a novel of my own, I try to read mostly nonfiction, although sometimes I break down and peek at something else.

- Carl Hiaasen

I don't feel the need to prove myself by writing the next generational novel.

- Camilla Lackberg

Novel writing wrecks homes.

- C. S. Forester

Novel writing is far and away the most exhausting work I know.

- C. S. Forester

Somehow, you can achieve a directness in the novel that you can't get anywhere else.

- Chad Harbach

The novel has always been the form that incorporates other forms. For me, it has always been the ultimate medium.

- Chad Harbach

'Emma' is my favorite Jane Austen novel - one of my favorite novels period; a novel about intelligence outsmarting itself, about a complicated, nuanced, irresistible heroine who does everything wrong.

- Cathleen Schine

Be the responsibility on their heads who raise this novel and extraordinary question of reception, going to the unconstitutional abridgment, as I conceive, of the great right of petition inherent in the People of the United States.

- Caleb Cushing

I don't like to use writing assignments, exercises. I think too often people get comfortable writing in that vein, but you can't go on to write a novel comprised of short writing exercises.

- Chang-Rae Lee

What's fun about a dystopian novel is that we can enjoy and be entertained. But that world is only slightly different, right? It's familiar enough to be recognizable, and skewed enough to give us pause.

- Chang-Rae Lee

In a revolution, as in a novel, the most difficult part to invent is the end.

- Alexis de Tocqueville

The last romantic novel I think I read was 'Tess of the d'Urbervilles.'

- Bartlett Sher

If I'm in the bookstore, and I see a 700-page novel, my first thought is, 'Ooh, how could you cut this down to size and make a movie out of it?'

- Brian Helgeland

The job of the screenplay is to identify and extract the essence of the story from the novel and reconfigure it for the screen, maintaining its essence in a different vehicle.

- Barry Eisler

I used my NEA fellowship to write my novel, 'In Country,' which was published by Harper & Row in 1985.

- Bobbie Ann Mason

No one knows how to write a novel until it's been written.

- Alice Hoffman

There's never a false note in a Berg novel.

- Augusten Burroughs

I believe that every writer evolves with every successive novel. I view myself as work-in-progress.

- Ashwin Sanghi

I wasn't sitting around years ago thinking, 'I really want to write a novel.'

- Amy Waldman

You have to have heart's passion to write a novel.

- Alan Furst