Affair Quote by Stephen King

I've done more than I thought I was ever going to do. I've had a very long and very satisfying career.

— Bob Newhart

In all seriousness, people think that it's the ideas that are important. Well, everyone has ideas, all the time. I tend to write mine…

— Terry Pratchett

I'm a firm believer in stories with arcs and beginnings and endings and all that. 'Scott Pilgrim' is sort of one long novel, and…

— Bryan Lee O'Malley

Actually, I enjoy the process of writing a big long novel.

— Donna Tartt

I had always said to myself that forty was the cut off point of my apprenticeship which may for some people sound like a…

— Jane Rule

There's a lot of ignorance about how long it takes to write a novel. There's a lot of ignorance about how long a novel…

— John Irving

I have almost completed a long novel, but it is unpublishable until my death and England's.

— Anonymous

In terms of a "career," I never have long-term plans, and certainly don't want to spend several years, say, writing a "long" novel.

— Scott Bradfield

“I think there really is no other way to write a long, serious novel. You work, shelve it for a while, work, shelve it…

— John Gardner

“Tweets and text messages killed the long novel.”

— Andrew Barger

Writing a long novel is like survival training. Physical strength is as necessary as artistic sensitivity.

— Anonymous

I guess if I was made responsible for every single line of dialogue in a game and every single piece of textual visual detail,…

— Richard K. Morgan