Books Quote by Jeffrey Eugenides

I'm not reading any novels right now, though not for lack of trying. Unless they're really good, my attention in most novels tends to…

— Matthew Healy

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

— Michael Helm

As to the number of novels I've abandoned... I shudder to think. I have thrown away five completed novels, and that's a gruesome enough…

— Mark Haddon

I work continuously within the shadow of failure. For every novel that makes it to my publisher's desk, there are at least five or…

— Gail Godwin

I keep telling myself I should try very hard to write a novel of about 210 pages... I don't seem to be capable of…

— Elizabeth Kostova

Beginning a novel is always hard. It feels like going nowhere. I always have to write at least 100 pages that go into the…

— Barbara Kingsolver

I've always relied on producing more material than I need. With each of my published novels I've written around four times the amount of…

— Lauren Groff

I finished 1,100 books in six weeks.

— Shannon Bream

I have a lot of stuff that I never published because I always had a sense that novels were not finally going to be…

— William Monahan

Writing novels takes up about 100% of my available working time.

— Charles Stross

The way I feel about every book is this: you don't finish it, you abandon it. All of my books have in some sense…

— Russell Banks

Much as I love stories, I think I'll only be satisfied with myself as a writer if I'm able to produce a novel that…

— Steve Almond