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

“The problem of the novel is to stay truthful. The short story, if you really are intense and you have an exciting idea, writes itself in a few hours.”

“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.”

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

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

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

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

“Principle of causality is fundamental to human thinking, and it has been observed experimentally that this assumption leads to complex hypothesis formation by human subjects attempting to solve comparatively simple problems involving a causal randomly generated events”

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