Book Quote by Barbara Mertz

When I'm working on a novel, I work 70-hour weeks.

— Dean Koontz

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

The thing that I prefer, when I'm working on a book, is to do a seven-day week, because it's easy to lose some of…

— Donald E. Westlake

It usually takes me a year to do a book. A year or eighteen months.

— Doris Lessing

I teach classes 28 weeks of the year, but the rest of the time I do research and write books. While I'm writing a…

— Steven Pinker

I only work on my books at nights and at weekends. It is really just like a hobby.

— Jeff Kinney

I can write a book in probably three months.

— Stephen J. Cannell

I still have a full-time day job, which is why it took me five years to write An Ear to the Ground, and why…

— Ken Thompson

I work just as much as I always worked. And I can't explain the fact that there have been a series of books coming…

— Philip Roth

It takes me three months of research and nine months of work to produce a book. When I start writing, I do two pages…

— Alan Furst

I tend to be pretty efficient with my time. I work on a novel for four to five hours a day, and then the…

— Nicholas Sparks

For a very long time, I wrote a book a year, and was eager and willing to do it, to put bread on the…

— Jan Karon