Book Quote by Ethan Canin

I've written something like 17 novels, which isn't bad, I suppose, but my father wrote 120 books, my mother 40. In comparison, I'm lazy.

— Deborah Moggach

I read a lot of books; I am a lazy person when I don't work!

— Catherine Tresa

I think of myself as a very lazy author.

— Neil Gaiman

Whenever someone wonders how I could have written 57 books, I remind them that Isaac Asimov wrote 500 books.

— Philip Kotler

I never met a writer who wasn't lazy.

— Stephen King

I don't read books regularly, because I'm always writing them. I've written 30 books, thousands of pages.

— Ferran Adria

It takes me a long time writing books. It takes me about five years to write a book, and when I'm done, the last…

— Naomi Klein

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

— Svetlana Alexievich

I'm barely prolific and incredibly lazy.

— Tom Petty

People always ask, 'How do you write so many books?' And I say, I work a lot. I work six or seven days a…

— R. L. Stine

I write four or five a books a year. That means that I usually have one on the go. I am fortunate in being…

— Alexander McCall Smith

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