Book Quote by David Baldacci

Usually it takes me about nine to 12 months to write a book.

— Jerry Spinelli

It takes me two to three years to write a novel. A screenplay is 100 pages and takes five years.

— Nick Hornby

How long it takes to write a book depends on its length.

— Walter Jon Williams

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

— Doris Lessing

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

— Ted Bell

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

— Svetlana Alexievich

How long does it take to write a good book? All of the years that you've lived.

— Edward Abbey

A novel may take anywhere from two to five years to write and, in the end, you might manage a couple of thousand dollars…

— Mordecai Richler

A novel usually takes me two years. A year to research and plan and dream. Then a year to write.

— Rose Tremain

I used to think that: whenever I heard that someone had taken 10 years to write a novel, I'd think it must be a…

— Ian Rankin

I can write a book in probably three months.

— Stephen J. Cannell