David Means Quotes

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.

The novel, for me, was an accident. I really don't consider myself a novelist.

If I really considered myself a writer, I wouldn't be writing screenplays. I'd be writing novels.

My primary ambition is to be a fiction writer... Being a critic wasn't an aspiration of mine.

It's hard for me to think of writing a novel, because it takes so long.

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

I've never been a true fan of the short story and have only published a single example of my own.

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

I didn't think I could pull off a novel.

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

I've never abandoned the novel.

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

I always knew writing a novel was a great thing.

You can write a short story in two hours. Two hours a day, you have a novel in a year.

I started writing novels by not thinking about actually writing a whole novel - that felt altogether too daunting. I thought out a rough idea, then wrote chapter by chapter, and then by the time I'd hit 40,000 words, it was a challenge just to see if I could get to the end.

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.

I love to write. I write everything across the board - kids' stories and novels and scripts. I actually would like to give that a go; I'd like to try to be a writer.

I tend to be more of a novel writer. In fact, some of my novels started out as short stories, and I just got carried away! I think some of my best writing is in the short story form, but novels come more naturally to me.

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

I wanted to see if I could write a good book.

I have two ideas for novels at the moment, neither of them all that conventional, but I'm not ready to choose between them yet, let alone settle down to the process of writing.

I had a very realistic expectation of the level of success that it was possible to attain writing romance novels.

I don't think there was a time I ever thought of myself as anything but a writer. I thought I was going to be the next Toni Morrison.

Why do I like to write short stories? Well, I certainly didn't intend to. I was going to write a novel. And still! I still come up with ideas for novels. And I even start novels. But something happens to them. They break up. I look at what I really want to do with the material, and it never turns out to be a novel.

I cannot write a novel because I cannot work in continuity. My works are more abstract, may be, I will try short story writing.