It took me a good two-and-a-half to three years to write…

Dhobi Ghat' is the only script I actually completed and that I was convinced about wanting to direct.

— Kiran Rao

From beginning to end, the novel [Dissemblers] took about three and a half years to write. I didn't write it chronologically.

— Liza Campbell

I notice that I only publish once every four years. It takes a couple of years to write a book and then, for me,…

— Carolyn See

I don't think anything I've written has been done in under six or eight drafts. Usually it takes me a few years to write…

— E. L. Doctorow

I think about my films for a long time, maybe years, but I write them in days.

— Anurag Kashyap

I love to read. I remember hearing that the average author takes two years to write a book. So when I read a book,…

— Mark Batterson

I just think, as writers, especially with a book that takes years to write, you sort of wake up every morning hoping and praying…

— Christopher Bollen

Goon Squad' took about three years to write and that's the short end. My second novel, 'Look at Me,' took six years.

— Jennifer Egan

I talk to my typewriter and that is what I've been working on for 40 years-how to write for talking.

— Alistair Cooke

And I'm a slow writer: five, six hundred words is a good day. That's the reason it took me 20 years to write those…

— Shelby Foote

I taught elementary school and painted apartments for ten years. Now I write full-time and never have to change a thing I write. Every…

— Jon Scieszka

Yes, I did lock myself in my room for about two years and write some songs and things like that. But I don't feel…

— Hunter Hayes

When I need to take a side, I write a newspaper article and I tell my government, "You should not do that, you should…

— Amos Oz

It took me 14 years to write poems about Vietnam. I had never thought about writing about it, and in a way I had…

— Yusef Komunyakaa

It took me sixteen years to write.

— Junot Diaz