Accomplished Quote by David Bezmozgis

I wish I could spend six years writing one novel.

— Paullina Simons

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

— Svetlana Alexievich

I don't know if I had ever found my place in the world until I fully committed to being a writer.

— Jami Attenberg

What I like about writing novels is that I'm in my own world for nine months.

— Jane Fallon

It is no fun at all to have been writing a book for seven or so years, especially when you've never published anything before.

— Chad Harbach

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

I was going to write a book one day and I actually did. To have it is a major accomplishment for me.

— DJ Khaled

Every time I write a book, I've probably taken five years off my life.

— Rachel Cusk

I never really wanted to write a book in the first place. Never intended to do such. I feel like I wasted a lot…

— Scarface

I never wanted to write a book, and people have asked me for years to do it.

— Billy Bob Thornton

I spent six years after my first novel and five years after my second without getting into a new book.

— Karl Ove Knausgard

Seven years into writing a novel, I started to lose my mind. My thirty-seventh birthday had just come and gone, the end of 2008…

— Akhil Sharma