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 with them.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Novels are longer than life.
Usually, I would mistrust a book if it took that long to write. Usually, if it isn't done in two years, I suspect there's something wrong and throw it away.
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 always tell my students, 'If you walk around with your eyes and ears open, you can't possibly live long enough to write all the novels you'll encounter.'
I can write for a long time on one novel and not get tired.
There's no reason you should write any novel quickly.
If you're writing a novel, you're in a room for three or four years. There's not much coming in from the outside.
The reason I love comics more than anything else is that the longest story will be just a few pages. With a novel, it takes so many pages to get to one thing happening.
I actually enjoy writing longer books because you have even more to get your storytelling teeth into.
Novels are so much unrulier and more stressful to write. A short story can last two pages and then it's over, and that's kind of a relief. I really like balancing the two.