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Originally Posted by Prestidigitweeze
Leaves of Grass was the very first example I gave. Did you not notice?
Other obvious examples: Ulysses. Finnegan's Wake. A Rebours. Madame Bovary.
And here's the ridiculous thing: You're not even arguing against what I actually said.
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Why am I not? With "often" I thought you meant "most book" but maybe that was not what you meant. Because I do not believe that it is true that most book that have survived took a lifetime to write.
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And that's assuming you've actually researched the amount of time the lasting books you've read took to write (to the extent you actually could if you were talking about, say, Aeschylus).
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No science fiction book that has survived in that way took a lifetime to write. And authors like Jane Austen, Georgett Heyer, Conan Doyle, and soo on did not spend a liftime writing one book.