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title: "11 Months Write Quotes by 11 authors"
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> [“You‘ve got your whole life to write your first book and six months to write the second one.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-lawrence-belford/you-ve-got-your-whole-life-to-write-your-first-book-and-six-months-to/)

[Richard Lawrence Belford](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-lawrence-belford/)

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> [It took me nine months to write 60 pages. It was very frustrating](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sara-paretsky/it-took-me-nine-months-to-write-60-pages-it-was-very-frustrating/)

[Sara Paretsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sara-paretsky/)

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> [Usually it takes me about nine to 12 months to write a book.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jerry-spinelli/usually-it-takes-me-about-nine-to-12-months-to-write-a-book/)

[Jerry Spinelli](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jerry-spinelli/)

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> [I set goals for myself every three months. I write them down.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/payal-kadakia/i-set-goals-for-myself-every-three-months-i-write-them-down/)

[Payal Kadakia](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/payal-kadakia/)

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> [It can take me many months to write one of my own songs.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-gauthier/it-can-take-me-many-months-to-write-one-of-my-own-songs/)

[Mary Gauthier](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-gauthier/)

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> [Short stories are wonderful and extremely challenging, and the joy of them, because it only takes me three or four months to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anthony-doerr/short-stories-are-wonderful-and-extremely-challenging-and-the-joy-of/)

[Anthony Doerr](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anthony-doerr/)

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> [Books are like your children. They take nine months to write; the manuscript weighs six pounds and...you send them out into the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edna-buchanan/books-are-like-your-children-they-take-nine-months-to-write-the/)

[Edna Buchanan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edna-buchanan/)

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> [It took us nine months to write 'The East'; we didn't start writing it on the computer until seven and a half…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/zal-batmanglij/it-took-us-nine-months-to-write-the-east-we-didn-t-start-writing-it/)

[Zal Batmanglij](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/zal-batmanglij/)

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> [If you have five weeks to write an episode of television or seven months to write a movie or several years to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lawrence-o-donnell/if-you-have-five-weeks-to-write-an-episode-of-television-or-seven/)

[Lawrence O'Donnell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lawrence-o-donnell/)

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> [I love writing, and I am never as happy as when I have a week, a month - three months - with…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bernhard-schlink/i-love-writing-and-i-am-never-as-happy-as-when-i-have-a-week-a-month/)

[Bernhard Schlink](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bernhard-schlink/)

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> [The habits of a lifetime when everything else had to come before writing are not easily broken, even when circumstances now often…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tillie-olsen/the-habits-of-a-lifetime-when-everything-else-had-to-come-before/)

[Tillie Olsen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tillie-olsen/)

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