James D. Watson Quotes

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

I always thought it would be so much fun to write a book.

Try writing a book, dude. That's difficult.

I always knew writing a novel was a great thing.

No one writes a great book every time out, or even a good book.

Now I'm trying to work outside first person. I do plan to write more books.

I like the idea of trying to write a book in every genre.

I might just write a novel next. I don't know!

If I ever write a book, it will be called 'Bottle Blonde.'

I am a very linear thinker, so I write beginning to end. I write hundreds of pages per book that never make it into print.

I'm hoping to get started on a new novel.

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

Writing a book is not easy.

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

I have great stories. I am going to write a book.

I'm not a writer who refuses to talk about a book until I've finished.

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 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.

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.

Making a book is a craft, like making a clock; it needs more than native wit to be an author.

I want prose fiction to be recognized as that, and I'm not interested in writing as it becomes more personal.

Writers are troubled about finding time to write and writer's block and publicizing books that aren't books yet. They agonize over how to write and what to write and what not to write.

There are people who say they want to write novels. They think, 'I'll learn my craft on the romance novel.' If you don't love the genre, it's going to show, and it's not going to be a good book.

I have a lot of books I want to write.