Barely Quote by Graham Swift

Books are slow. They require time; they are written slowly, published slowly, and read slowly.

— Lewis Buzbee

To read a novel requires a certain kind of concentration, focus, devotion to the reading. If you read a novel in more than two…

— Philip Roth

There's a lot of ignorance about how long it takes to write a novel. There's a lot of ignorance about how long a novel…

— John Irving

If you interrupt the writing of fast narrative with too much introspection and self-criticism, you will be lucky if you write 500 words a…

— Ian Fleming

When I write a novel I start each morning by reading for 20 minutes.

— Richard Ford

“..."(Years of work are required before the cerebral mechanisms for reading, if regularly oiled, finally become unconscious.-Stanislas Dehaene.) The important thing is not so…

— Jacques Bonnet

The novels take longer to write than the picture book texts, and they do take a different sort of concentration. However, a very short,…

— Margaret Mahy

If you read a novel in more than two weeks, you don't read the novel really.

— Philip Roth

It's a great compliment that people think they're fast reads. It's always funny to me because it takes so long to get a book…

— Sarah Dessen

Generally, my notes and outlines comprise more words than my novels. I suppose that's one reason I'm a comparatively slow writer, something that has…

— Frank Peretti

I don't feel I write fast. I write in longhand and do so much revision. On the page, it's so old-fashioned. I could write…

— Joyce Carol Oates

Speed is not an indicator of quality in terms of fiction. That's true of one's relative slowness or swiftness - taking 10 years to…

— Chuck Wendig