Books Quote by Donna Tartt

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 have written about 240 books and some short stories, too. It's taken me many years.

— Eve Bunting

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

— Michael Helm

I can only write one novel at a time. The author of the Perry Mason novels, Erle Stanley Gardner, often worked on four novels…

— James Thayer

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

— Elizabeth Berg

I actually started trying to be a professional writer with novels, and I wrote two that exist and are around... kind of. But they…

— Charles Soule

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

— Judith Guest

I take a very long time to write my books - from five to ten years.

— Svetlana Alexievich

I had novels to write, so I wrote them.

— Octavia E. Butler

I write at a pace that suits me, and sometimes it's two books a year, but most often it's one.

— Michael Connelly

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

— Nick Hornby