Books Quote by Mordecai Richler

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

— Nick Hornby

I can't understand why a person will take a year to write a novel when he can easily buy one for a few dollars.

— Fred Allen

Some people take 10 years to write a book and some can do one in under a year.

— David Baldacci

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

— Rose Tremain

It takes a long time to write a novel when you have to keep interrupting your work to earn money.

— Dana Spiotta

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

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

— Donna Tartt

Whatever a writer gets paid for his book, it's never enough. I think that's true. It's hard work. But in the end, you wrote…

— Jim Gaffigan

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

How long it takes to write a book depends on its length.

— Walter Jon Williams

I can write a book in probably three months.

— Stephen J. Cannell

Anyone could write a novel given six weeks, pen paper, and no telephone or wife.

— Evelyn Waugh