Before Quote by Sylvia Day

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

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

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

— Michael Helm

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

— Donna Tartt

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

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 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

Anybody can write a three-volume novel. It merely requires a complete ignorance of both life and literature.

— Oscar Wilde

For most of my life, when I've finished the book I'm writing, there've always been as many as two or three other novels waiting…

— John Irving

I wish I could spend six years writing one novel.

— Paullina Simons

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