Book Quote by Donald Ray Pollock

It can take years. With the first draft, I just write everything. With the second draft, it becomes so depressing for me, because I…

— David Sedaris

Every time I start on a new book, I am a beginner again. I doubt myself, I grow discouraged, all the work accomplished in…

— Simone de Beauvoir

I don't start a novel until I have lived with the story for awhile to the point of actually writing an outline and after…

— John Grisham

I'm a relatively disciplined writer who composes the whole book before beginning to execute and write it. Of course, you can't hold - you…

— Orhan Pamuk

When a book is in its final stages, I've just got to be home, looking at it seventeen hours a day, and that's fine.…

— Pam Houston

I always write too long in the beginning, then it is a matter of going through it over and over again on subsequent drafts,…

— Chevy Stevens

Generally I start writing when I have even the smallest idea of how a book is going to go, because the physical process of…

— Terry Pratchett

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

— Ted Bell

It's hard for me to think of writing a novel, because it takes so long.

— Jonathan Ames

I write very quickly; I rewrite very slowly. It takes me nearly as long to rewrite a book as it does to get the…

— John Irving

Each of my books took roughly one and a half years to write. Some may have taken a shorter time to write the draft…

— Alex Flinn

When I am working on an epic-length book, the writing process is fairly long. It takes from four to five years to get through…

— Gunter Grass