Books Quote by Graham Swift

I spend about a year between novels

— Anne Tyler

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

— Michael Helm

When I first started, my novels were set in the far future.

— Robert J. Sawyer

A novel usually takes me two years. A year to research and plan and dream. Then a year to write.

— Rose Tremain

When you're my age and you see a story, you better go for it pretty quickly. I'd just like to get a few more…

— John le Carre

After something crystallizes, I can write ferociously and write novels in six months, which in the past would have taken me two years.

— Paul Auster

I've written only two novels, but they're both long ones, and they each took a decade to write.

— 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

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

— Salman Rushdie

No... a novel is a long business. I'm a slow writer, even when I'm doing very well I write slowly.

— Octavia 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

For most of my life, when I've finished the book I'm writing, there've always been as many as two or three other novels waiting…

— John Irving