American Quote by Tim Pigott-Smith

The actual writing time is a lot shorter than the thinking time.

— Harlan Coben

Since its beginnings, American writing has been in dialogue with other literatures.

— Giles Foden

Writers of fiction, when they begin, are more likely to try the short form

— Irwin Shaw

All great literary works influence us as writers, not their stories as much as their storytelling ability.

— Michael Scott

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

Whether it is done quickly or slowly, however splendid the results, the process of writing fiction is inherently, inevitably, indistinguishable from wasting time.

— Deborah Eisenberg

If you just sit there, and you're a writer, you're bound to write crap. A lot of American writing is crap. And a lot…

— Jamaica Kincaid

In commercial fiction especially, everything in the story usually contributes directly to the plot The shorter the story, the truer this is

— Nancy Kress

Although I'm very lazy when it comes to writing, I'm not that lazy when it comes to thinking. I like to develop the plan…

— Jorge Luis Borges

a writer doesn't only need the time when he's actually writing - he or she has got to have time to think and time…

— Nadine Gordimer

Emphasizing and rewarding length over quality results in worse writing and more reader abandonment.

— Marco Arment

It takes me two to three years to write a novel. A screenplay is 100 pages and takes five years.

— Nick Hornby