A Quote by George Pelecanos

I'm always working on my next novel, even when I'm not.

George Pelecanos

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George Pelecanos
American - Author
Born: February 18, 1957

Working on the plot/story idea for my next novel ... It always takes time.

Nicholas Sparks

I've never discovered the idea for my next novel while I was still working on the current novel. Other writers don't suffer this.

James Thayer

I like working in children's books because it gives rise to such a variety of jobs. One month it may be a picture book, the next a retelling, the next a play, a short story or the start of the next novel.

Geraldine McCaughrean

I get very weird and defensive about what I'm working on - I wouldn't even tell my secretary what the next page of my novel was about.

Joan Juliet Buck

Even while I was working on the novel I would also write short stories as relief, just to be in a wieldier world that could negotiated more easily and more quickly. In the novel, I even changed the narrator from a man to a woman.

Leni Zumas

I write one step at a time, always finishing off the part I'm working on before even thinking about the next part. I need to hear it all together before deciding what goes next. I even mix before moving on...in other words, I write by recording.

Zach Condon

When we launch a product, we're already working on the next one. And possibly even the next, next one.

Tim Cook

I always wanted to write. While I was on a long surf trip, supporting myself with various day jobs, I was working hard on a novel. My third novel, in fact.

William Finnegan

I am a working person. I always work, study or do research for my novel. I even work on Sunday.

Andrea Hirata

I'm always thinking, 'What next,' even while working on one play or shooting for a film.

Lillete Dubey

I've always been really good at staying busy. Even while I'm working, I'm looking at what the next thing is.

Brian Posehn

You say fate is almost indispensable to literature - I think it's completely indispensable, at least in a novel, because a novel always has a plot. Even if nothing happens, even if someone just spends a day walking around Dublin, or whatever, there's still something going on.

Daniel Kehlmann

I'm working on different fields. One of my next books Insha'Allah will be a novel because it's important to explore the heart and imagination, the spiritual side. I've been working for twenty five years in the legal field and now I'm reaching what I want, which is an Islamic applied ethics and I'm also dealing with Muslims in the West.

Tariq Ramadan

For my part, the good novel of character is the novel I can always pick up; but the good novel of incident is the novel I can never lay down.

Agnes Repplier

It's very bad to write a novel by act of will. I can do a book of nonfiction work that way - just sign the contract and do the book because, provided the topic has some meaning for me, I know I can do it. But a novel is different. A novel is more like falling in love. You don't say, 'I'm going to fall in love next Tuesday, I'm going to begin my novel.' The novel has to come to you. It has to feel just like love.