Never Quote by Joe R. Lansdale

I had no idea Savage Season was the beginning of a series. I wrote the second one about three years later. The character of…

— Joe R. Lansdale

I was well under the spell of the old Gold Medal Crime novels when I wrote 'Savage Season,' and I wanted to write a…

— Joe R. Lansdale

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

— Donna Tartt

I've been writing since I was about thirteen but didn't start a book until 2007. I spent four years writing a sci-fi novel before…

— Samantha Shannon

I finished my first novel - it was around 300 pages long - when I was 16. Wrote one more before I got out…

— Michael Koryta

I've been writing for a long time. I sat down to write my first novel in the middle of March of 1982.

— J. A. Jance

I'd never written a novel before, and I wrote a novel, and that turned out OK.

— Rainbow Rowell

You're always told by your publisher that you must only write one book a year and some years you should perhaps write none at…

— Alexander McCall Smith

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

— John Burnside

I had novels to write, so I wrote them.

— Octavia E. Butler

I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it.

— Toni Morrison

I don't write a novel every two years.

— Jayne Anne Phillips