Books Quote by Ayobami Adebayo

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

— Rose Tremain

After you've been working fairly intensively on a novel for six months you never want to see the damn thing again.

— Terry Pratchett

If I'm really immersed in a story, I try to finish it in a few days. If it's a longer work, then it would…

— Ruskin Bond

It takes me two to three years to write a novel. A screenplay is 100 pages and takes five years.

— Nick Hornby

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

— Karl Ove Knausgard

It took seven years from the day I decided I wanted to write fiction to actually getting a book published.

— Cynthia Kadohata

It takes me three or four years to research and write each book and the individual stories stay with you for a long time…

— Antony Beevor

Usually, I start thinking about my next novel soon after completing the latest, and it can take anywhere from a month to 6 months…

— Nicholas Sparks

My first novel took 12 years to complete because life got in my way.

— Donald McKay

I spend about a year between novels

— Anne Tyler

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

— Donna Tartt

I always assumed I could never make a living out of literary fiction, and I was right. When I did try, it took four…

— Justin Cartwright