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When one is writing a novel in the first person, one must be that person  (Writing A Novel Quotes) It’s hard for me to think of writing a novel, because it takes so long  (Writing A Novel Quotes) For me, writing a short story is much, much harder than writing a novel  (Writing A Novel Quotes) It's the technique, I think, of writing a novel that is difficult for a nonfiction writer  (Writing A Novel Quotes) You must understand that when you are writing a novel you are not making anything up. It's all there and you just have to find it  (Writing A Novel Quotes) Writing a novel is not merely going on a shopping expedition across the border to an unreal land: it is hours and years spent in the factories, the streets, the cathedrals of the imagination  (Writing A Novel Quotes) What interests me in writing a novel is taking really remote voices, characters, and stories and beginning to create some kind of web  (Writing A Novel Quotes) The object is very clear in the fight against racism; you have reasons why you’re opposed to it. But when you’re writing a novel, you don’t want the reader to come out of it voting yes or no to some question. Life is more complicated than that  (Writing A Novel Quotes) I was obsessed with fairytales, and I was a very, very inquisitive kid, and I would ask my mom all kinds of questions. It all kind of formed a story in my head, and I really wanted to be a published author when I was 10, but I had a hard time writing a novel when I was 10, so I decided to wait until I was little bit older and then get it done  (Writing A Novel Quotes) What’s the challenge in writing a novel that few people will read? I’m more than happy writing what I do and have no plans to change that  (Writing A Novel Quotes) To make it interesting and worth doing, writing a novel has to be a leap into the unknown. I have to be unsure if I can write it; otherwise, I won’t want to  (Writing A Novel Quotes) The business of writing a novel is a long, meandering road into the self, into the imagination. And it’s a road the writer travels alone  (Writing A Novel Quotes) Writing a novel is like working on foreign policy. There are problems to be solved. It’s not all inspirational  (Writing A Novel Quotes) In my experience, writing a novel tends to create its own structure, its own demands, its own language, its own ending  (Writing A Novel Quotes) There are two kinds of typical days. There’s the typical day when I’m writing a novel, and there’s the typical day when I’m not  (Writing A Novel Quotes) Anthropological fieldwork is so much like writing a novel. You don’t know what the hell is going on  (Writing A Novel Quotes) For me, the process of writing a novel happens mostly in your head before you actually start writing  (Writing A Novel Quotes) Writing a novel in general is like trying to reach a mountain top you’ll never quite reach - so you try again and maybe get a little closer  (Writing A Novel Quotes) Whether I’m in front of the camera, behind the camera, at my computer writing a novel or a screenplay, as long as I get to entertain someone out there, I’m happy  (Writing A Novel Quotes) It's such a confidence trick, writing a novel. The main person you have to trick into confidence is yourself. This is hard to do alone  (Writing A Novel Quotes) When I’m writing a novel, I’m dealing with a double life. I live in the present at the same time that I live in the past with my characters. It is this that makes a novelist so eccentric and unpleasant  (Writing A Novel Quotes) I think I got spoiled and that writing a short story and getting it published, or writing a novel and getting it published, you pretty much get to do the first, second and third draft yourself without a whole lot of interference  (Writing A Novel Quotes) If you’re writing a novel, you’re in a room for three or four years. There’s not much coming in from the outside  (Writing A Novel Quotes) And the nice thing about writing a novel is you take your time, you sit with the character sometimes nine years, you look very deeply at a situation, unlike in real life when we just kind of snap something out  (Writing A Novel Quotes) As a teacher at Princeton, I'm surrounded by people who work hard so I just make good use of my time. And I don't really think of it as work writing a novel, in one sense, is a problem solving exercise  (Writing A Novel Quotes) When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature  (Writing A Novel Quotes) A certain luxury when you get to writing a novel is to have the space to have your characters just banter  (Writing A Novel Quotes) Writing a novel is a very hard thing to do because it covers so long a space of time, and if you get discouraged it is not a bad sign, but a good one. If you think you are not doing it well, you are thinking the way real novelists do. I never knew one who did not feel greatly discouraged at times, and some get desperate, and I have always found that to be a good symptom  (Writing A Novel Quotes) Sometimes I say that writing a novel is the same as constructing a chair: a person must be able to sit in it, to be balanced on it. If I can produce a great chair, even better. But above all I have to make sure that it has four stable feet  (Writing A Novel Quotes) I never plan. I never know what the next page is going to be... But that’s the fun of writing a novel or a story, because I don’t know what’s going to happen next  (Writing A Novel Quotes)
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