Email Quote by Emmanuelle Beart

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

— Rachel Cusk

After you've been working fairly intensively on a novel for six months you never want to see the damn thing again.

— Terry Pratchett

I go too long without picking up a good book, I feel like I've done nothing useful with my life.

— Jane Austen

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

It's emotional to be leaving 'Page Three.' It's been my life since I was 18, and I'm so grateful for the chances it gave…

— Peta Todd

I wouldn't mind writing a long book which is going to occupy me for the rest of my life.

— Philip Roth

If I was going to write something, I'd need to stop for three months and just see if I had any thoughts in there.

— Mariella Frostrup

Three months seems to me quite a reasonable time to complete a book, if one can get right down to it.

— Agatha Christie

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

With two books a year, I don't have time for writer's block.

— James Rollins

I spend about eight months researching and outlining my book.

— Jeffery Deaver

As a writer, I wouldn't know how to not take things out of my life.

— Zoe Cassavetes