Before Quote by Charles Palliser

I continued for too long to do things that I already knew how to do, or to write stories that I was assigned instead…

— Gloria Steinem

I can write three novels in the time it takes to write one novella. I'm probably not going to go with that form again.

— Nathan Lowell

If I did only one thing at a time I'd think I was wasting my time. If, for example, I only wrote novels I…

— Peter Ackroyd

It's hard for me to think of writing a novel, because it takes so long.

— Jonathan Ames

I'm trying to break myself of that habit [of not writing out a first draft ] because I'm working on a couple novels and…

— Donald Ray Pollock

I can write for a long time on one novel and not get tired.

— Judith Guest

I hoped to be able to write a novel which would enable me to live on it while I wrote the next.

— Harper Lee

When I finish a book, I always fear that I'll never write again. It takes a lot of time. You always think if you…

— Claire Messud

Like so many writers I started writing stories because I didn't have much time for anything else.

— Tobias Wolff

It takes me a long time writing books. It takes me about five years to write a book, and when I'm done, the last…

— Naomi Klein

Most novels, I find, are three times longer than they need to be. Very little happens, and I don't want to waste my time…

— Chuck Palahniuk

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

— Michael Helm