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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 of me.

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

I only did about one novel a year while I was working full time, but since 1993, I've averaged two and a half books a year.

I typically spend a year thinking about a book before I begin writing it.

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

I don't very often read novels.

I wish I could spend six years writing one novel.

I don't write a novel every two years.

Typically, a book takes me about a year to write.

A novel usually takes me two years. A year to research and plan and dream. Then a year to write.