Books Quote by Haruki Murakami

I can only write one novel at a time. The author of the Perry Mason novels, Erle Stanley Gardner, often worked on four novels…

— James Thayer

You hear about people who write 15 to 20 novels. How do they do it? You just gotta do it.

— Gordon Lightfoot

Anyone who is going to be a writer knows enough at fifteen to write several novels.

— May Sarton

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 wish I could spend six years writing one novel.

— Paullina Simons

Anyone could write a novel given six weeks, pen paper, and no telephone or wife.

— Evelyn Waugh

Actually, the 14 novels were written over a period of just over 6 years.

— George Stephen

Few of us write great novels; all of us live them.

— Mignon McLaughlin

I write the novels that are possible for me to write, not that ones I think will come across in a certain light.

— Rachel Kushner

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

— Donna Tartt

I'm not the most prolific writer in the world, and, sadly, writing a novel involves a lot of effort.

— Tibor Fischer

“Writing novels allows the novelist to spend much of his time in a fictional world, which is really the only or at least the…

— Javier Marías