This Year You Write Your Novel Quotes

“The process of writing a novel is like taking a journey by boat. You have to continually set yourself on course. If you get distracted or allow yourself to drift, you will never make it to the destination. It's not like highly defined train tracks or a highway; this is a path that you are creating discovering. The journey is your narrative. Keep to it and there will be a tale told.”
― Walter Mosley, This Year You Write Your Novel

“The reader is always looking for two things in the novel: themselves and transcendence.”
― Walter Mosley, This Year You Write Your Novel

“If you want to write believable fiction, you will have to cross over the line of your self-restraint and revel in the words and ideas that you would never express in your everyday life.”
― Walter Mosley, This Year You Write Your Novel