Books Quote by Greg Iles

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

When I write novels, it's just me alone in a room.

— Rebecca Serle

What I like about writing novels is that I'm in my own world for nine months.

— Jane Fallon

With novels, you're sitting at a desk, alone, going slightly crazy, for anywhere from six months to a year with zero feedback.

— Duane Swierczynski

At the age of seventeen, I decided I would spend my life writing fiction. I didn't know what this entailed, exactly - a room,…

— Patrick deWitt

For a writer, for the solitude to write, you don't need a room of your own, you need a house.

— Sandra Cisneros

I don't write a novel every two years.

— Jayne Anne Phillips

I spend about a year between novels

— Anne Tyler

I think of novels as houses. You live in them over the course of a long period, both as a reader and as a…

— Nicole Krauss

For so long, the model for writing has been, you sit in a room alone for a number of days or weeks or months…

— Robin Sloan

“Stop trying to write a novel. Just tell a story, type it up, 1 hour every day, and by the end of the year,…

— Ksenia Anske

I always tell my students, 'If you walk around with your eyes and ears open, you can't possibly live long enough to write all…

— Jill McCorkle