Sara Sheridan Quotes

I read all the time. Sometimes I get asked if I've thought about writing a novel.

Writing a first novel was an arduous crash course. I learned so much in the six years it took me to write it, mostly technical things pertaining to craft.

I've moved on to Plan B now, writing novels.

When I started working on 'Stay With Me,' I thought it would take two years to complete the novel.

I found some time ago that I have to be careful, while working on a novel, what I read.

I'm not sure I have the physical strength to undertake a novel.

There's a lot of ignorance about how long it takes to write a novel. There's a lot of ignorance about how long a novel is in your head before you start to write it.

Actually, I enjoy the process of writing a big long novel.

I was twenty-seven when I came up with the idea for my first novel.

I've always wanted to write a novel. It's overwhelming and daunting, and it's one of those things that every writer fantasizes about doing.

There's no reason you should write any novel quickly.

When I was in college, I used to write little ditties and short stories and poetry for my friends. Writing a book is another thing. It is so much different from my traditional day of dirty fingernails and greasy hair and hot pans.

I'm not the most prolific writer in the world, and, sadly, writing a novel involves a lot of effort.

I had reached a point in my career in which I was ready to try something new in my writing, and the idea of a novel has always been in the back of my mind.

Oh you know, I've been writing a novel.

Writing novels is sitting in a room by yourself for a year.

Holy cow - everything about writing a novel is hard for me.

I don't know how everyone writes a novel; that sounds exhausting.

It's really hard to be a story writer - no matter how much acclaim you get - and not write a novel.

I want to wake up one morning and know how to write page one, or page 10, or page 250. But I never seem to know how to do it. Every book is different and takes a different structure, style, process, etc. And relearning how to write is where the insanity comes from.

I started out as a novelist and wrote several novels before deciding to publish one, and I fully intend to go back to the form.

Usually after finishing a novel, I have a head full of bad ideas for the next one.

It makes more sense to write one big book - a novel or nonfiction narrative - than to write many stories or essays. Into a long, ambitious project you can fit or pour all you possess and learn.

I do everything from home. I broadcast commentaries for CBS News Radio every day - from home, on a disk that I mail in. I write a weekly op-ed piece for the 'New York Daily News,' and any books or plays or movies that I'm crazy enough to write, I do that from home.

Writing a novel is so hard, and there are so many problems that the last thing you're thinking about is adapting this mess you have on your hands as a movie. You just want to get it to work as a novel. That's your main focus.