“The hard part about writing a novel is finishing it.”

“I once tried to write a novel about revenge. It's the only book I didn't finish. I couldn't get into the mind of the person who was plotting vengeance.”

“The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy, the building of a house, the writing of a novel, the demolition of a bridge, and, eminently, the finish of a voyage.”

“I don't write fantasy; I write historical novels about an imaginary place.”

“You never learn how to write a novel. You just learn how to write the novel that you're writing.”

“I want to write a novel about Silence," he said; “the things people don’t say.”

“Write hard and clear about what hurts.”

“Writing a novel is not very difficult: you simply write ten pages a day for a month and then you have a novel.”

“Writing a novel is agony.”

“If I could sum it up in 50 words, I wouldn't have needed to write a whole novel about it.”