101.   I later heard that Erich Maria Remarque had been the editor of a German fashion magazine and decided to quit his job and write a novel.

102.   I dug through these issues in my own work, spending my years at Stanford writing a novel about a rent strike in Chicago.

103.   I liked that they were stuck up in this house in the middle of nowhere, writing novels.

104.   I had never thought about writing a novel.

105.   I wanted to write a novel long ago about James Buchanan, an American president, and found I could not bring it off.

106.   I thought it would be much better if I wrote the entire novel and sent it out.

107.   I was not thinking about writing a novel about the German resistance to Hitler, which is what the book became.

108.   I wrote it because I just really, really wanted to write a novel.

109.   I detest it when novels are written about the impossibility of writing a novel.

110.   If he had become the president, he said, he would have stopped writing novels for five years.