Fiction Quote by Martin Amis

There's a lot of ignorance about how long it takes to write a novel. There's a lot of ignorance about how long a novel…

— John Irving

“Writing a story or a novel is one way of discovering sequence in experience, of stumbling upon cause and effect in the happenings of…

— Eudora Welty

A novel usually takes me two years. A year to research and plan and dream. Then a year to write.

— Rose Tremain

“Entering a novel is like going on a climb in the mountains: you have to learn the rhythm of respiration, acquire the pace; otherwise…

— Umberto Eco

If you're writing a novel, you're in a room for three or four years. There's not much coming in from the outside.

— Mordecai Richler

Novels, in my experience, are slow in coming, and once I've begun them I know I have years rather than months of work ahead…

— Graham Swift

Writing takes gall. I like to think that's true even for writers with several books under their belt, writers who have been doing it…

— Rumaan Alam

“I am a storyteller, for better and for worse. I suspect that a feeling for stories, for narrative, is a universal human disposition, going…

— Oliver Sacks

“When I was a kid, growing up during the 1970s, I used to read a lot of horror and science fiction. I graduated from…

— Mark Samuels

Usually, I start thinking about my next novel soon after completing the latest, and it can take anywhere from a month to 6 months…

— Nicholas Sparks

Every time that I write a novel I am convinced for at least two years that it is the last one, because a novel…

— Umberto Eco

Once the initial excitement wears off and it's time to sit down to write, the authors are usually still very eager, but the reality…

— Deborah Reber