“Writing a novel is agony.”

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

Gene Wolfe (1931–2019) American science fiction and fantasy writer

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

Henri Peyre (1901–1988) American linguist

“The central problem of novel-writing is causality.”

Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986) Argentine short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator, and a key figure in Spanish language literature

“Life is God's novel. Let him write it.”

Isaac Bashevis Singer (1902–1991) Polish-born Jewish-American author

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

Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961) American author and journalist

“Life is God's novel. Let him write it. ”

Georg Büchner (1813–1837) German dramatist and writer of poetry and prose

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

Raymond E. Feist (1945) Novelist

“One man writes a novel. One man writes a symphony. It is essential that one man make a film.”

Stanley Kubrick (1928–1999) American film director, screenwriter, producer, cinematographer and editor

“When I want to read a novel, I write one.”

Benjamin Disraeli (1804–1881) British Conservative politician, writer, aristocrat and Prime Minister