Arrive Quote by Douglas Coupland

None of my books has been ever in my head; after they're finished, they go. It's like being a sort of medium; you just…

— Peter Ackroyd

It's going to be labor-intensive and time-consuming, but you need to take all the books down and put them on the floor. Take them…

— Marie Kondo

I read in a weird way. It comes in waves, and then I start, like, five different books at once. It takes me six…

— Barry McGee

I have to get three pages done every day, and there's usually a point about 150 pages in where everything falls apart, where all…

— Andrew Sean Greer

I had/have a habit of sending books out before they're ready. And then I edit with almost absurd intensity. But I've done about a…

— Shane McCrae

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

— Doris Lessing

I write a book over a period of months or years, and when I'm done with it, usually another year goes by before I…

— Margaret Haddix

If you write a page a day in couple months you have a good chunk of the book and then after a year you…

— Ethan Canin

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

— Ted Bell

Usually I read several books at a time - old books, new books, fiction, nonfiction, verse, anything - and when the bedside heap of…

— Vladimir Nabokov

But most weeks I've gone through 12 books, maybe even 15 some weeks, depending on the length. So I go through my long form,…

— Maria Popova

Books are like your children. They take nine months to write; the manuscript weighs six pounds and...you send them out into the world and…

— Edna Buchanan