Accommodate Quote by George Saunders

I have finally realized that, you know, it's not a given that my lifespan will accommodate my writing aspirations.

— George Saunders

If you're lucky enough to have 70 years of literate adulthood, and if you read one book every week, you're still only going to…

— Anthony Doerr

I wish I could spend six years writing one novel.

— Paullina Simons

I am 55 years old now. It takes three years to write one book. I don't know how many books I will be able…

— Haruki Murakami

I knew that if I wrote a new book every six months or every year, if I continued to read great books, eventually I…

— Augusten Burroughs

“I hope I don't write TOO many books! When I look at authors who have written too many books, I wonder to myself "When…

— C. JoyBell C

I reckon I can count on 30 more writing years, averaging a book a year (I can't keep up the 2-2.5 a year I…

— Charles Stross

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

— Eve Bunting

There comes a point when you can more or less count the number of books you're going to write before you die.

— Kazuo Ishiguro

I used to think that if I was ever so lucky as to get a book deal that I would write all the time.…

— Rebecca Serle

I've written something like 17 novels, which isn't bad, I suppose, but my father wrote 120 books, my mother 40. In comparison, I'm lazy.

— Deborah Moggach

I wouldn't mind writing a long book which is going to occupy me for the rest of my life.

— Philip Roth