There is no correct way to write a novel, or rather,....

“ There is no correct way to write a novel, or rather, there is only one, and that one way is to make it interesting. That is very easily said, but how do you make your writing interesting?The answer to the question is, that you write interestingly only about the things that genuinely interest you. This is an infallible rule. ”

Ted Hughes

From : Poetry in the Making: An Anthology