Books Quote by Michael Helm

Most novels, I find, are three times longer than they need to be. Very little happens, and I don't want to waste my time…

— Chuck Palahniuk

I can write three novels in the time it takes to write one novella. I'm probably not going to go with that form again.

— Nathan Lowell

I usually have more than one thing I'm working on at once - I've been working on three different novels. When I get stuck…

— Dan Chaon

I can write for a long time on one novel and not get tired.

— Judith Guest

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

— Donna Tartt

For most of my life, when I've finished the book I'm writing, there've always been as many as two or three other novels waiting…

— John Irving

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

— Michael Connelly

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

I get and read an enormous number of first novels.

— Richard Russo

I'm not reading any novels right now, though not for lack of trying. Unless they're really good, my attention in most novels tends to…

— Matthew Healy

I prefer a great novel, but many novels come with a bunch of novel-y writerliness that feels sort of macho to me, so I…

— Miranda July

Yeah, I just finished a novel. Man those things take forever to read.

— Martin Mull