Writing a novel is easy-¦ writing checks is hard.
– Michael J Kannengieser
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- I like to think that when I complete a novel I learned something along the way. – Michael J Kannengieser
- Without imagination, writing is a stack of lumber, a sack of nails, and a locked tool shed. – Michael J Kannengieser
- Writing is a craft, being an author is work, and having readers and a following is a gift. – Michael J Kannengieser
- You never learn how to write a novel. You just learn how to write the novel that you’re writing. – Gene Wolfe
- When you believe you’ve become the best writer you can be-¦ you still aren’t. – Michael J Kannengieser
- Where science is a dignified waltz in three-quarter time, magic is an improvised saxophone solo: all gut checks and synchronicities. – Michael G Williams
- 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
- 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
- True friendship has no checks or balances. Once someone starts Keeping Score, the game is over. – Kate McGahan
- I’m a writer. I write checks. Mostly fiction. – Wendy Liebman
- Memory gallops, then checks up and veers unexpectedly; to memory, the order of occurrence is arbitary – Anthony Doerr
- And he always checks that he carries three things with him: faith, hope, and love. – Paulo Coelho
- Rather than signalling the aspiration for system of checks and balances against absolute power, democracy become a euphemism for majority rule. – Peter Mansfield
- 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
- [Speaking about writing her first novel] You have to be passionate enough about it and I was. – Kristyn Van Cleave
- Writing a novel is agony. – George Orwell
- Novel writing is World Building & Word Weaving (Neil Postman’s terms). – JM Varner
- Drawing and painting is like a quickie in bed. Were as novel writing is a long term relationship, much more fulling. – Tara Dobbs
- Writing a novel is like having a dream. – Haruki Murakami
- You never finish writing a novel, you eventually abandon it. – Tom Winton
- The most exciting part of writing a novel is when the characters take control of the story – Brandt Legg
- The Bible is the story so far in the true novel that God is still writing. – NT Wright
- It’s good to go off and write a novel, but don’t stop doing writing practice. – Natalie Goldberg
- Writing a novel is like traveling the universe on foot. – Dennis R Miller
- Most times, my mind is just an ongoing, present-tense, first-person monologue. It’s like I’m writing a novel, constantly, but only in my brain. – Andrew Shaffer
- Most times, my mind is just an ongoing, present-tense, first-person monologue. It’s like I’m writing a novel. – Andrew Shaffer
- You must understand that when you are writing a novel you are not making anything up. – Thomas Harris
- Writing a novel is like driving a car at night. You can only see as far as the headlights but you can make the whole trip that way. – ELDoctorow
- Ideas are cheap. Writing them into a freakin’ 90k word novel is the hard part. – Ellie Ann
- There are three secrets to writing a novel. Unfortunately nobody knows what they are. – W Somerset Maugham
- It was a dark and stormy night. . .perfect for staying indoors and writing a novel! – Sandra Kopp
- Half the fun of writing a novel is finding out from other people later on what you actually meant. – Iain Banks
- The first sentence of every novel should be: Trust me, this will take time but there is order here, very faint, very human. – Michael Ondaatje
- You know what I did after I wrote my first novel? I shut up and wrote twenty-three – Michael Connelly