Books Quote by Piers Anthony

Much as I love stories, I think I'll only be satisfied with myself as a writer if I'm able to produce a novel that…

— Steve Almond

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

— Donna Tartt

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

— Michael Helm

I enjoy it too much - even if I knew I'd never get a book published, I would still write. I enjoy the experience…

— Iain Banks

Publishers send me a lot of first novels because my first novel was the defining novel of my career, and I guess a lot…

— Jay McInerney

I seem to produce a novel approximately once every three years.

— Michael Cunningham

Like most new writers, I could only hope that one day one publisher might agree to publish one of my books; I couldn't imagine…

— Emma Healey

Sometimes many publishers prefer that you write the same book every time, but I have a low boredom threshold so that isn't going to…

— Dean Koontz

You know, in the old days, you might be able to slowly sort of build an audience for your work by publishing two, three…

— Chad Harbach

I have a lot of stuff that I never published because I always had a sense that novels were not finally going to be…

— William Monahan

You're always told by your publisher that you must only write one book a year and some years you should perhaps write none at…

— Alexander McCall Smith

I have many books that I want to write; I'd like to think that I'll be around for another 20 years or so and…

— George R. R. Martin