novel writing, n.All

Novel writing can be summed up in three rules. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.

Novel writing is not as easy as it looks. People in every walk of life think they can write novels, a delusion which seems to be especially prevalent among novelists.

Novel writing is being as unconscious as possible and to do so by inducing in the self a state of perpetual lethargy, to fall into habit and to strive not to spook that very shy and illusive spirit, the imagination.

Novel writing is difficult and finishing a book is just like you took a child out in the back yard and shot it.

Novel writing is ruined by education. Teaching has ruined more American novelist than drink.

Novel writing is not easy. The main thing is not the feeling that one can write it, but that it exists on the far side of a gulf untraversible by words, and that it must be pulled through in a breathless anguish.

Novel writing is to be undertaken as if you were going to be beheaded the day you finish the book.

A Novel writing is easy. Anyone could write one given six weeks, pen, paper, and no telephone.