Books Quote by Chuck Palahniuk

Nearly all novels are too long.

— Rose Macaulay

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

Novels are longer than life.

— Natalie Clifford Barney

I prefer a great novel, but many novels come with a bunch of novel-y writerliness that feels sort of macho to me, so I…

— Miranda July

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

I urge aspiring writers to write three full-length novels before contemplating publication.

— Sylvia Day

I tend not to write books that are really, really long, and I'm also a pretty fast writer.

— Elizabeth Berg

For most of my life, when I've finished the book I'm writing, there've always been as many as two or three other novels waiting…

— John Irving

Usually, I would mistrust a book if it took that long to write. Usually, if it isn't done in two years, I suspect there's…

— John Burnside

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

Novels are so much unrulier and more stressful to write. A short story can last two pages and then it's over, and that's kind…

— Aimee Bender