Books Quote by Anne Tyler

Novels, in my experience, are slow in coming, and once I've begun them I know I have years rather than months of work ahead…

— Graham Swift

I spent six years after my first novel and five years after my second without getting into a new book.

— Karl Ove Knausgard

I seem to produce a novel approximately once every three years.

— Michael Cunningham

I seem always to have two or three novels going at once. It takes me a long time to finish one.

— Michael Helm

I've written only two novels, but they're both long ones, and they each took a decade to write.

— Donna Tartt

I write at a pace that suits me, and sometimes it's two books a year, but most often it's one.

— Michael Connelly

When I am writing novels I don't read a lot of novels so I try to catch up in-between.

— Salman Rushdie

Writing novels is sitting in a room by yourself for a year.

— Greg Iles

After something crystallizes, I can write ferociously and write novels in six months, which in the past would have taken me two years.

— Paul Auster

I wish I could spend six years writing one novel.

— Paullina Simons

I spend eight months outlining and researching the novel before I begin to write a single word of the prose.

— Jeffery Deaver

I don't very often read novels.

— Sidney Poitier