Writing a novel is like having a dream.
– Haruki Murakami
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- You never learn how to write a novel. You just learn how to write the novel that you’re writing. – Gene Wolfe
- Not having enough talent seemed almost worse than not having any, because having a little meant having just enough to know what you lacked – Kat Howard
- All the same, writing honestly is very difficult. The more I try to be honest, the farther my words sink into darkness. – Haruki Murakami
- No matter how much enthusiasm and effort you put into writing, if you totally lack literary talent you can forget about being a novelist. – Haruki Murakami
- The stupidity of people comes from having an answer for everything. The wisdom of the novel comes from having a question for everything. – Milan Kundera
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- The biggest difference between writing a movie and writing a novel? No one ever tries to sleep with me to get into one of my novels. – Mylo Carbia
- I dream. Sometimes I think that’s the only right thing to do. – Haruki Murakami
- Have your dream…What you need now more than anything is discipline. Cast off mere words. Words turn into stone. (from Thailand) – Haruki Murakami
- This life is nothing but a short, painful dream. – Haruki Murakami
- I don’t dream. Come to think of it, i haven’t had any dreams in a long time. – Haruki Murakami
- Is that me?,’ Leo said. ‘Like me–having this dream–looking at me having a dream? – Rick Riordan
- A good-enough novel violently written now is better than a perfect novel meticulously written never. – Elizabeth Gilbert
- The only thing which can tell us about the novel is the novel. – Edwin Muir
- As far as I can tell, a young-adult novel is a regular novel that people actually read. – Stephen Colbert
- Now, my novel begins. No, now I begin my novel-”and yet I cannot decide whether to call myself I or she. – Elizabeth Hardwick
- A novel is always more complicated than it seems at the beginning. Indeed a novel should be more complicated than it seems at the beginning. – John Irving
- When the Dream Giver asked me to give my Dream to him, I didn’t think I could. But I wanted the Dream Giver more than my Dream, so I did. – Bruce Wilkinson
- Having a hearing is educational. Having a hearing with television cameras is useful. Having a hearing with two rows of television cameras is Heaven. – Tim Wirth
- Having writers block sucks more than my actual writing. And my writing would be astonishing if I could write how I feel. – Ally Spina
- The art of writing involves making as many cups of tea as you can in the time available for writing. Then adding extra time for writing… – Alan Dapre
- You’re never as good a writer as you think you are, and you’re never as bad. Just keep reading and writing, writing, writing. – Don Roff
- Love the writing, love the writing, love the writing… the rest will follow. – Jane Yolen
- Unfortunately, the clock is ticking, the hours are going by. The past increases, the future recedes. Possibilities decreasing, regrets mounting. – Haruki Murakami
- A healthy amount of fear and respect might be a good idea – Haruki Murakami
- For some reason all the middle-aged women he knew were very efficient. – Haruki Murakami
- When you prick a person with a needle, red blood comes out- that’s the real world. – Haruki Murakami
- Thinking about spaghetti that boils eternally but is never done is a sad, sad thing. – Haruki Murakami
- She and I were bound together at the border between life and death. It was like that for us from the start – Haruki Murakami
- Then, all but instinctively, I took her in my arms. Pressed against me, her whole body trembling, she continued to cry without a sound. – Haruki Murakami
- I was the chain that bit into my ankle, and I was the ruthless guard that never slept. – Haruki Murakami
- You can hide memories, suppress them, but you can’t erase the history that produced them – Haruki Murakami
- If you can’t understand it without an explanation, you can’t understand it with an explanation. – Haruki Murakami
- She was seriously in love, but she never made demands. – Haruki Murakami
- If you have to choose between something that has form and something that doesn’t, go for the one without form. That’s my rule. – Haruki Murakami
- Like boarding a train running parallel. That’s what disappearing is. – Haruki Murakami
- Like someone excitedly relating a story, only to find the words petering out, the path gets narrower the further I go, the undergrowth taking over. – Haruki Murakami
- The sky grew darker, painted blue on blue, one stroke at a time, into deeper and deeper shades of night. – Haruki Murakami
- Not being able to find the right words at crucial times is one of my many problems. – Haruki Murakami
- Fate seems to be taking me in some even stranger directions. – Haruki Murakami