Helen Lowe publie sur son blog un article un article intitulé : Time, Quality, & The Modern SFF Novel dans lequel elle explique que, selon elle, il y aurait un lien entre le temps qu'un auteur passe à écrire une oeuvre, et la qualité qui en découle. 

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Yesterday, I referred readers to a number of interesting (I thought!) articles I’d read otherwhere in internet land. One of them was a two-part interview with Paolo Bacigalupi on the Orbit blog. One of the things that stuck with me in what he said, when speaking about his award-winning novel, The Windup Girl, was this: “In the end, it took me about three years to write, not including the couple of years before where I’d been working out the world and writing short stories set there.”  You all know that I think The Windup Girl is an outstanding novel. And clearly a few other folk think so, too, because the awards its won include 2010 Hugo, Locus and Compton Crook Awards and the Nebula Award 2009, as well as being named as the ninth best fiction book of 2009 by TIME magazine. Awards aren’t everything, of course, but still—not bad going, huh?  But here’s the thing: what Bacigalupi said in the Orbit interview is that The Windup Girl took him between 3 – 5 years to write. Now there is no way that I can prove a correlation between time spent and quality, but there’s no doubt in my mind that The Windup Girl is a quality book. Equally clearly, it also took time to produce …