A Quote by Umera Ahmad

I don't write constantly; it's two serials and a novel a year.

Umera Ahmad

Quote Topics

Constantly Novel Serials Two Write Year

Quote Author

Umera Ahmad
Pakistani - Novelist
Born: December 10, 1976

A novel usually takes me two years. A year to research and plan and dream. Then a year to write.

Rose Tremain

I don't want to write a novel per year. I know that I need a break of one or two years. So maybe I invent some new, urgent activity so I don't fall into the trap of starting a new novel.

Umberto Eco

The DNA of the novel - which, if I begin to write nonfiction, I will write about this - is that: the title of the novel is the whole novel. The first line of the novel is the whole novel. The point of view is the whole novel. Every subplot is the whole novel. The verb tense is the whole novel.

Mary Kay Zuravleff

It's a lot to expect of yourself, to write a novel in a year. Anyway, you don't write a novel, you write a scene, and then another scene.

Janet Fitch

When I came into television, the serials were all women-centric, while the men had to stand around like furniture. I wasn't willing to be a prop in serials. To my good fortune, I got serials where I was a central character.

Ashish Sharma

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

Ray Bradbury

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

Ray Bradbury

The few times I've tried to write original screenplays, it's a difficult process because I just don't feel like I know the characters the way I know them after the year or two it takes to write a novel.

Tom Perrotta

Besides 'Mahabharat,' I am also acting in two serials - 'Karam Apnaa Apnaa' and 'Kyunki.' Three serials at one time mean I won't have time for anything else.

Hiten Tejwani

Every time that I write a novel I am convinced for at least two years that it is the last one, because a novel is like a child. It takes two years after its birth. You have to take care of it. It starts walking, and then speaking.

Umberto Eco

I am so busy with my family and my serials I don't get time to watch other serials.

Smriti Irani

The most difficult novel I have had to write in terms of just getting it done was The Vampire Lestat. It took a year to write.

Anne Rice

Don't force yourself to write. Some people can write a novel in a few months, whereas for others it can take over a year. I'm lucky to be one of the former - but, even so, if I'm not in the mood to write, I won't. I'll go off, do something else and come back to it when I'm ready.

Cecelia Ahern

I only did about one novel a year while I was working full time, but since 1993, I've averaged two and a half books a year.

L. E. Modesitt, Jr.

I feel that whatever virtues the novel may have are very much connected with the limitations you mention. I am not writing a conventional novel, and I think that the quality of the novel I write will derive precisely from the peculiarity or aloneness, if you will, of the experience I write from.

Flannery O'Connor

I don't think I'd have the stamina, skill or ability to write a novel, but I'd love to write short stories and poetry, because those are my two passions.

Daniel Radcliffe

A Quote by Umera Ahmad

Quote Topics

Quote Author

Related Quotes

Related Authors