I buy thousands of books a year.

'Success' is a seductive word. Thousands of books have been written on the subject. They promise money, freedom, leisure, and luxury.

— Joseph B. Wirthlin

New York has been the subject of thousands of books. Every immigrant group has had its saga as has every epoch and social class.

— Edmund White

The books take a year just to do the drawing. I will travel to a country to do the research and get ideas. Sometimes…

— Jan Brett

I try to read 20 books a year.

— Phoebe Robinson

I do 30 to 40 books a year, so it's a fair amount of reading. Back and forth between nonfiction and fiction. I usually…

— James Patterson

books are brain food. If every American would purchase the equivalent of his weight in books each year, this country would be a different…

— Patricia Schroeder

One of the great advantages of only publishing five books per year is that I get to be excited about every book.

— Andrew Latimer

His books were part of him. Each year of his life, it seemed, his books became more and more a part of him. This…

— Carl Sandburg

I write at a pace that suits me, and sometimes it's two books a year, but most often it's one.

— Michael Connelly

“If you add up how much you read in a year on the Internet—tweets, Facebook posts, lists—you’ve read the equivalent of a shit ton…

— Trevor Noah

I haven't written a young-adult book in years. I'm also doing six 'Goosebumps' books a year now.

— R. L. Stine

If you read one hour per day in your field, that will translate into about one book per week. One book per week translates…

— Brian Tracy

With two books a year, I don't have time for writer's block.

— James Rollins

We probably put about four or five comic books out a year and probably about two or three art books and various trade paperbacks…

— Glenn Danzig

Most of my books are a two-year project. I tend to follow my heart and my mind and research materials where they take me.

— Nikki Giovanni