Able Quote by Alexander McCall Smith

I write four books a year. I'm very fortunate that I write quickly; around 3,500 words a day. Being strict about delineating my writing…

— Alexander McCall Smith

I write about five thousand words a day, when working on a book, about three thousand a day if I'm writing a short story.…

— Eric Brown

I take a very long time to write my books - from five to ten years.

— Svetlana Alexievich

People always ask, 'How do you write so many books?' And I say, I work a lot. I work six or seven days a…

— R. L. Stine

At first, I spend about four hours a day writing. Toward the end of a book, I spend up to 16 hours a day…

— Tracy Kidder

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

— Michael Connelly

I write 3-4 days a week, 4-5 hours at a time (with lots of breaks). My goal is 2000 words when I sit down…

— Nicholas Sparks

I don't have many hours in a day, as I'm essentially a single parent. But fortunately, I'm a really fast writer. My goal is…

— Michelle Gagnon

I don't write huge books any more. I used to write 1,000 printed pages, but now I write short books. I did one on…

— Paul Johnson

Typically, a book takes me about a year to write.

— Ted Bell

I've written something like 17 novels, which isn't bad, I suppose, but my father wrote 120 books, my mother 40. In comparison, I'm lazy.

— Deborah Moggach

I just write all the time! I'm always working. I usually work on several books at once.

— Danielle Steel