Writing a novel is actually searching for victims. As I write I keep looking for casualties. The stories uncover the casualties.
John Irving
The building of the architecture of a novel - the craft of it - is something I never tire of.
I never know when I finish the novel I am writing which will be the next novel out of the station.
When I love a novel I've read, I want to reread it - in part, to see how it was constructed.
I believe that, in any novel of mine, the principal objective is the construction of the whole.
There's no reason you should write any novel quickly.
When I feel like being a director, I write a novel.
I never see a novel as a film while I'm writing it. Mostly because novels and films are so different, and I'm such an internal novelist.
Alice Hoffman
The only obligation to which in advance we may hold a novel, without incurring the accusation of being arbitrary, is that it be interesting.
Henry James
I've been writing for a long time. I sat down to write my first novel in the middle of March of 1982.
J. A. Jance