About Quote by Corey Taylor

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

— Rose Tremain

This is, if not a lifetime process, it's awfully close to it. The writer broadens, becomes deeper, becomes more observant, becomes more tempered, becomes…

— Rod Serling

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

— Nick Hornby

You hear about people who write 15 to 20 novels. How do they do it? You just gotta do it.

— Gordon Lightfoot

Some people take 10 years to write a book and some can do one in under a year.

— David Baldacci

A novel may take anywhere from two to five years to write and, in the end, you might manage a couple of thousand dollars…

— Mordecai Richler

After 20 years of writing academic prose and lectures, it seems very familiar and straightforward to me. Writing a novel for the first time,…

— Deborah Harkness

Novel writing, like so many things in life, is an iterative process. You come at it again and again, working at it like you…

— Kameron Hurley

The writer has to take risks and go somewhere full of mystery and possibility for the novel to deepen over the years it takes…

— Dana Spiotta

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

I can't understand why a person will take a year to write a novel when he can easily buy one for a few dollars.

— Fred Allen

I never know as a writer when I set out into a novel where it's going to take me.

— Kim Edwards