Book Quote by Khaled Hosseini

I spent six years after my first novel and five years after my second without getting into a new book.

— Karl Ove Knausgard

I thought that I would have a huge literary novel coming out when I was, like, 29. I quit my banking job, and I…

— Philipp Meyer

My second novel, "Good Benito", was not finished. I wished that I had spent another year with it.

— Alan Lightman

When I started working on 'Stay With Me,' I thought it would take two years to complete the novel.

— Ayobami Adebayo

Every time I write a book, I've probably taken five years off my life.

— Rachel Cusk

After you've been working fairly intensively on a novel for six months you never want to see the damn thing again.

— Terry Pratchett

I put off writing the first Left Behind book for a year because I got invited to assist Billy Graham in his memoirs, and…

— Jerry B. Jenkins

In some ways I think it would be very dignified if I went away for twenty years and then wrote my fourth book.

— Curtis Sittenfeld

Madly, futilely, I wrote novel after novel, eight in all, that failed to find a publisher. I persisted because for me the novel was…

— William Nicholson

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

My first novel took 12 years to complete because life got in my way.

— Donald McKay

So, while I gave up the notions of publishing at that time, I never stopped editing and refining that book. A few years later,…

— R. A. Salvatore