I started my first novel when I was 10, and have produced thousands of pages of juvenilia since. – Ned Beauman
I am exhausted by traditional memoir. I am exhausted by the architecture of the conventional novel. – David Shields
Many of my short stories (all unpublished) were horror, and the novel I’d just finished was horror, too. – George Stephen
I kept starting ‘Anansi Boys’ as a movie and stopping, and eventually wrote the novel and was happy. – Neil Gaiman
Conflict drives fiction; no one wants to read a four-hundred-page novel in which everything rolls along smoothly. – Nancy Kress
This is real life. This ain’t some Nicholas Sparks novel – Miley Cyrus Miley Stewart in Hannah Montana.
I wrote the first draft of my first novel at Michigan, and then I wrote the first draft of ‘Salvage the Bones’ at Stanford. So I workshopped the entire thing. – Jesmyn Ward
I’ve read short stories that are as dense as a 19th century novel and novels that really are short stories filled with a lot of helium. – Lynn Abbey
I spend eight months outlining and researching the novel before I begin to write a single word of the prose. – Jeffery Deaver
‘The Cauliflower’ is not strictly a novel, as Barker says in her indispensable afterword. – Justin Cartwright