I believe the first draft of a book — even a long one — should take no more than three months…Any longer and — for me, at least — the story begins to take on an odd foreign feel, like a dispatch from the Romanian Department of Public Affairs, or something broadcast on high-band shortwave duiring a period of severe sunspot activity.


On Writing (ed. Simon and Schuster, 2002) - ISBN: 9780743455961


I believe the first draft of a book — even a long one — should take no more than three months…Any longer and — for me, at least — the story ...

I believe the first draft of a book — even a long one — should take no more than three months…Any longer and — for me, at least — the story ...

I believe the first draft of a book — even a long one — should take no more than three months…Any longer and — for me, at least — the story ...

I believe the first draft of a book — even a long one — should take no more than three months…Any longer and — for me, at least — the story ...