Writing a novel is like going a great distance to take a small shit.
Before trying a novel I wrote a couple of plays.
A novel is never anything, but a philosophy put into images.
Oh, that sound? I'm in the hot tub, reading a novel.
There are no laws for the novel. There never have been, nor can there ever be.
When one is writing a novel in the first person, one must be that person.
You can throw a novel into focus with one overheard line.
'The Buccaneers' was an Edith Wharton novel, and she never finished it, and a screenwriter adapted it for television.
The novel moves like all the arts. It's transforming itself all the time.
Everyone thinks they're going to write one book of poems or one novel.
You know, I can imagine not writing a novel and writing poetry only.
My novels are often about people who are in love or attracted to each other.
The Hollywood movies are more like novels, and the kinds of films I make are more like poems.
Personally, I'm a big reader, and I've never wanted any of my favorite novels to be made into movies.
The hardest novel to write was Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant.
You never finish writing a novel, you eventually abandon it.
I don't write constantly; it's two serials and a novel a year.
My first novel was a challenge to myself. No one had an inkling that I was working on it.
A good novel, one which entices the author as much as it beckons the reader.
Novel writing is far and away the most exhausting work I know.
Never underestimate a clown with a book.
