Books Quote by Hilary Mantel

Once, I thought I had a novel, and it turned out it was only a short story. I wrote about 800 pages, but it…

— Richard Bausch

In college, I wrote maybe three short stories.

— Colson Whitehead

I can write three novels in the time it takes to write one novella. I'm probably not going to go with that form again.

— Nathan Lowell

I wasted a lot of years working on my writing and very grandly saying, 'And now... My Novel!,' which would soon be reduced to…

— George Saunders

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

— Eve Bunting

“Novels arise out of the shortcoings of history.”

— Novalis

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

— Donna Tartt

At thirty-five, having spent over twenty years running varied businesses for my family, I decided to sit down and write my first novel. I…

— Ashwin Sanghi

I've written three books you could think of as memoirs.

— Calvin Trillin

My second, third and fourth novels were mistakes, essentially.

— John Burnside

“Writing a book is like pulling strands out of your soul, one by one, until one day instead of a mess it finally looks…

— Ksenia Anske

I think I'm too lazy a writer to do something like historical fiction. You have to do so much research. I just write what…

— Sarah Dessen