Back Quote by Chris Van Allsburg

For 10 or 11 years, I had my kids, I wrote four or five books, and I was working all the damn time.

— Anne Enright

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've seen a lot of teachers come and go, and you do three or four years, and it's exhausting.

— Cameron Britton

I labored for eight years thinking I was writing a book for adults that was a nostalgic look back on childhood. Then my publisher…

— Jeff Kinney

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

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

— Doris Lessing

My post-child period resulted in one instant change: I write shorter books for kids.

— Berkeley Breathed

Writing children's books all started out as a way for me to give back and make a difference.

— Coy Bowles

For eight years, I taught special-needs preschool for 18 months to 3-year-olds. It's what I was gonna do with my career for a while,…

— Cameron Britton

I've been in education, you know, about 25 years. Not including the time I was in higher ed as a student.

— Miguel Cardona

I had the offer to write books plenty of times during the early stage of my career, and I always kind of just pushed…

— Tim Howard

I'm a teacher. My mother was a teacher. I spent 40 years as a teacher.

— Bobby Knight