Books Quote by Oscar Wilde

I have this prejudice that trilogies are long, three-volume novels.

— William Gibson

I don't think I want to write a third book. But the more people talk to me about it, the more I think maybe…

— Frederick Busch

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

— Sylvia Day

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

I write the novels that are possible for me to write, not that ones I think will come across in a certain light.

— Rachel Kushner

As a writer, you live in such isolation. It's hard to imagine your book has a life beyond you.

— Ann Brashares

The one thing which seems to me quite impossible is to take into consideration the kind of book one is expected to write; surely…

— Dorothy L. Sayers

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

A novelist has two lives-- a reading and writing life, and a lived life. he or she cannot be understood at all apart from…

— Jane Smiley

Novels are longer than life.

— Natalie Clifford Barney

I'm disappointed by well-written novels that only deal with two or three people.

— Ann Patchett

I don't know how everyone writes a novel; that sounds exhausting.

— Raphael Bob-Waksberg