Average Quote by David Edelstein

Actually, the 14 novels were written over a period of just over 6 years.

— George Stephen

Year followed struggling year for me, and all that time I read--I suppose few have ever read so. I began, as most young people…

— Gene Wolfe

Now that I understand how publishing schedules work, I can understand why many authors have the sophomore slump. A year is a long time…

— Patrick Rothfuss

I really enjoy doing both, but I didn't write nonfiction until 1994.

— Jonathan Franzen

The measure of a great writer is not how many weeks his books spend on the best-seller lists, but how many years his books…

— Cal Thomas

The problem with the term "The New Fiction" is that the fiction will inevitably be old. The same could have been said about the…

— Lee Klein

An important factor to note is that it's rare for anyone to sell a first novel written before they turned 30-35; long-format fiction tends…

— Charles Stross

“One of the reasons I wanted to write this column, I think, is because I assumed that the cultural highlight of my month would…

— Nick Hornby

So many (too many) books are published every year, and it seems everyone is writing a book. Perhaps we should all be reading more…

— Tracy Chevalier

There's not much to be said about the period except that most writers don't reach it soon enough.

— William Zinsser

More than 3,500 hardcover novels are published each year. Even the most avid reader buys fewer than one a week.

— M.J. Rose

I'm such a fangirl when it comes to other writers. I read 250 books a year, and I'm always talking up books by other authors.

— Jen Lancaster