You do not learn how to write novels in a writing program. You learn how by leading an interesting life. Open yourself up to all experience. Let life pour through you the way light pours through leave...
If your not annoying somebody, you're not alive.
(n.) An innovator; an asserter of novelty.
(n.) A writer of news.
(n.) A writer of a novel or novels.
I realised early on that being an author is a hugely misunderstood job.
You write once and you can call yourself a writer, but it takes three novels before you can call yourself a novelist. The first two could have just been lucky. One day, I will finish my third, and one...
The real novelist, the perfectly simple human being, could go on, indefinitely imaging.
The novelist works neither to correct nor to condone, not at all to comfort, but to make what's told alive.
A friend worth knowing tolerates your flaws while a friend worth keeping loves you in spite of them.
I spend a lot of time imagining things - in fact, you could say that imagining things is my job.
The novelist is more like a pregnant woman who delivers her own child unaided. A messy procedure, with lots of groaning.
There is no friend as loyal as a book.
The difference between a novelist and someone who tinkers around with writing is this: novelists finish their books.
Being a novelist is not the sort of thing we can shut off. It infests every bit of us until we lose the boundary between Person and Writer, like one of those color charts where it is impossible to say...