Books Quote by Michael Cunningham

I don't write a novel every two years.

— Jayne Anne Phillips

I spend about a year between novels

— Anne Tyler

For a very long time, I wrote a book a year, and was eager and willing to do it, to put bread on the…

— Jan Karon

If you do a certain amount of work every day, it will eventually become a novel.

— Alastair Reynolds

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

— Donna Tartt

I write at a pace that suits me, and sometimes it's two books a year, but most often it's one.

— Michael Connelly

I write every day. I'm always in the process of writing my last book, until the next one.

— Farley Mowat

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

— Michael Helm

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

— Terry Pratchett

And then I wrote my first autobiography when I - well, it was 23 years ago. And since then I've written about one book…

— Joan Collins

Typically, a book takes me about a year to write.

— Ted Bell