Novel writing is far and away the most exhausting work I know.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I'm not the most prolific writer in the world, and, sadly, writing a novel involves a lot of effort.
Novel writing is solitary work.
I don't know that any writing comes easily, but I certainly get more immersed in novels. I don't think the routine is any different, but fiction tends to pull me further away from my life. When I'm deep in a novel, I don't pay bills and I walk around in one shoe, drinking two-day old coffee, and calling my kids by the wrong names.
It takes a long time to write a novel when you have to keep interrupting your work to earn money.
I knew I wanted to write novels, but I could not finish what I started. The closer I got, the more ways I'd find to screw it up.
With the novels, I try to write a few pages a day - it doesn't sound much, but it can be difficult if I'm not sure where the story is going.
I find that nonfiction writers are the likeliest to turn out interesting novels.
I really enjoy writing novels. It's like the ocean. You can just build a boat and take off.
I can write for a long time on one novel and not get tired.
Novels are one of the few remaining areas of narrative storytelling where one person does almost all of the creative heavy lifting.