Books Quote by Duane Swierczynski

Writing novels is sitting in a room by yourself for a year.

— Greg Iles

I'm not reading any novels right now, though not for lack of trying. Unless they're really good, my attention in most novels tends to…

— Matthew Healy

If you're writing a novel, you're in a room for three or four years. There's not much coming in from the outside.

— Mordecai Richler

After you've been working fairly intensively on a novel for six months you never want to see the damn thing again.

— Terry Pratchett

Writing novels takes up about 100% of my available working time.

— Charles Stross

The challenge for any fiction writer is that your job involves simply sitting at a desk for a very, very long time.

— Chad Harbach

When I am writing novels I don't read a lot of novels so I try to catch up in-between.

— Salman Rushdie

I don't very often read novels.

— Sidney Poitier

If I had the luxury of working as a full time writer, I think you would see novels appearing on a much more regular,…

— John Scott

I don't really ask of myself a given word or page count or number of hours. To work every day, that's my only fetish.…

— Jonathan Lethem

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

— Judith Guest

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