Books Quote by Terry Pratchett

I spent six years after my first novel and five years after my second without getting into a new book.

— Karl Ove Knausgard

If you read a novel in more than two weeks, you don't read the novel really.

— Philip Roth

I'm always working on my next novel, even when I'm not.

— George Pelecanos

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

— Michael Cunningham

With novels, you're sitting at a desk, alone, going slightly crazy, for anywhere from six months to a year with zero feedback.

— Duane Swierczynski

You have to wait for your mind to catch up with whatever it is it’s working on; then you can write a novel.

— James M. Cain

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

— Michael Helm

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

After something crystallizes, I can write ferociously and write novels in six months, which in the past would have taken me two years.

— Paul Auster

I spend eight months outlining and researching the novel before I begin to write a single word of the prose.

— Jeffery Deaver

Novels, in my experience, are slow in coming, and once I've begun them I know I have years rather than months of work ahead…

— Graham Swift

If you do a certain amount of work every day, it will eventually become a novel.

— Alastair Reynolds