“It's so easy to get into the same routine. A novel every two years; perhaps, improving technique. But I'm not interested in that. I'm interested in doing something fundamentally important--and therefore, it needs time. And what I've been doing, really, is avoiding this pressure to get into the habit of one novel a year. This is what is expected of novelists. And I have never been really too much concerned with doing what is expected of novelists, or writers, or artists. I want to do what I believe is important.” WantNeedsWritingYearsBelieveTwoImportantArtistI BelieveEasyNovelToo MuchHabitConcernedPressureExpectedTechniqueNovelistsTwo YearsRoutineNot InterestedImprovingAvoidingEasy To GetTime Of Need Author:Chinua Achebe
“I'm not particularly inventive. If you left me in а room and told me to write a novel, I wouldn't be able to do it. But if you gave me two years in a public library around the corner, I could. It all comes from sort of mixing the true and the invented. I'm not a fabulist. I'm more of a reporter.” IfsWritingYearsTwoAbleLeftRoomsNovelLibraryCornersTwo YearsReportersMixingAround The CornerPublic LibraryYou Left Me Author:Elizabeth Gilbert
“I write poems about relationships, love relationships, and I'm not able to do that all the time. I could go two years without writing poems, and then write a dozen. Having a novel to work on, with the intricate puzzle of character and plot to work out, is satisfying for the time there is no poetry.” WritingYearsTwoCharacterAbleNovelWork OutPlotTwo YearsSatisfyingDozenPuzzlesIntricateLove RelationshipWriting Poems Author:May Sarton
“I developed a mania for Fitzgerald - by the time I'd graduated from high school I'd read everything he'd written. I started with 'The Great Gatsby' and moved on to 'Tender Is the Night,' which just swept me away. Then I read 'This Side of Paradise,' his novel about Princeton - I literally slept with that book under my pillow for two years.” YearsTwoBookSchoolNightSidesNovelWrittenHigh SchoolMovedParadiseTwo YearsPillowMoved OnManiaPrincetonTender Is The Night Author:A. Scott Berg
“There's no really other way to learn writing than by writing. So accelerate that as much as you can. The more you write, the better you'll get. What also helps, though, is walking away from broken stuff. Not everything's going to work. Killing two years of your life trying to resuscitate a dying novel, I don't know. Why not just write a different one? You'll have more ideas. You can't help having ideas.” KnowsWayWritingTryingYearsTwoIdeasDifferentHelpingStuffNovelDyingBrokenWalkingKillingTwo YearsWhy NotGoing To WorkAccelerateWalking Away Author:Stephen Graham Jones
“I was born January 6, 1937, eight years after Wall Street crashed and two years before John Steinbeck published The Grapes of Wrath, his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel about the plight of a family during the Great Depression.” YearsTwoWinningBornNovelStreetsWallEightPrizeTwo YearsWrathGrapesJanuaryGreat DepressionPlightPrize Winning Book:Wins, Losses, and Lessons: An Autobiography Source: Wins, Losses, and Lessons: An Autobiography
“After something crystallizes, I can write ferociously and write novels in six months, which in the past would have taken me two years.” WritingYearsI CanTwoPastNovelTakenMonthsSixTwo YearsSix Months Book:Conversations with Paul Auster Source: Conversations with Paul Auster