It took me 40 years to write my first book. When I was a…

I was not encouraged to follow the career of a writer because my parents thought that I was going to starve to death. They…

— Paulo Coelho

It took me 40 years to write my first book.

— Paulo Coelho

In terms of moments that pushed me toward becoming a writer... My parents, my wife, and my English teacher in the 8th grade were…

— Blake Crouch

I am 55 years old now. It takes three years to write one book. I don't know how many books I will be able…

— Haruki Murakami

Writing takes a lot of patience. It usually takes me a year to write a book. One time, it took me 14 years to…

— Avi

Some people take 10 years to write a book and some can do one in under a year.

— David Baldacci

“It takes a week to write a book, but it takes years to write a good one.”

— M.F. Moonzajer

You're always told by your publisher that you must only write one book a year and some years you should perhaps write none at…

— Alexander McCall Smith

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 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

Nobody ever got started on a career as a writer by exercising good judgment, and no one ever will, either, so the sooner you…

— George V. Higgins

“If you don’t put 99 percent of yourself into the writing, there will be no publishing career. There’s the writer and there’s the author.…

— Andre Dubus III

The career of a writer is comparable to that of a woman of easy virtue. You write first for pleasure, later for the pleasure…

— Marcel Achard

I think a lot of people assume you need to be born into a special creative family to have a career as a writer.…

— Jane Fallon

I can't imagine why you would want to take your child to see what the career of a writer is like, because it mostly…

— Daniel Handler