Always Quote by Justin Cartwright

It took seven years from the day I decided I wanted to write fiction to actually getting a book published.

— Cynthia Kadohata

Fiction has always been a thorn in my side, because I've always wanted to be a writer but I can't seem to really do…

— Sufjan Stevens

I haven't written a word of fiction since 2009. I have no desire to write fiction. I did what I did and it's done.…

— Philip Roth

It took me seven years of writing before I published my first story. And then, the publications trickled in over the next five years.

— Rob Roberge

It takes me two to three years to write a novel. A screenplay is 100 pages and takes five years.

— Nick Hornby

It is indeed difficult to make a living as a writer, and my advice to anyone contemplating a literary career is to have some…

— William S. Burroughs

I think the path to becoming a writer has become more through the novel. It's easier to get a novel published than a book…

— Jess Walter

Writing fiction is for me a fraught business, an occasion of daily dread for at least the first half of the novel, and sometimes…

— Joan Didion

Though I later found a career as a journalist and an essayist, fiction is my first love and I never left it, even though…

— Andrew Lam

I always thought that I could write a novel. In my case, it was misguided. I do believe that the best nonfiction is not…

— Ron Rosenbaum

I've been writing fiction as long as I've been writing poetry. It's just that the poetry took off, and it took me a lot…

— Barbara Hamby

Fiction writing was in my blood from a very young age, but I never considered writing as a real career. I thought you had…

— James Rollins