Books Quote by Nathan Lowell

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

— Michael Helm

I urge aspiring writers to write three full-length novels before contemplating publication.

— Sylvia Day

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

— Donna Tartt

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 only write one novel at a time. The author of the Perry Mason novels, Erle Stanley Gardner, often worked on four novels…

— James Thayer

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

— Judith Guest

It's hard for me to think of writing a novel, because it takes so long.

— Jonathan Ames

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

— Nick Hornby

I wish I could spend six years writing one novel.

— Paullina Simons

I write novellas because I don't like loose sprawling prose.

— Jim Harrison

If I had a story idea that I felt would work best in three volumes I might write a trilogy eventually. I'd very likely…

— Erin Morgenstern

For me, it would be pointless to write a novel that I knew I could complete within a specific length of time. I could…

— Charles Palliser