Book Quote by Ethan Canin

If you wrote a page a day, at the end of the year you would have a book. Whether it's any good or not…

— Jackie Collins

It takes me three months of research and nine months of work to produce a book. When I start writing, I do two pages…

— Alan Furst

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

— Ted Bell

When I'm working on a book, I try to do eight pages a week. That seems like a good amount. Less than that, I'm…

— Colson Whitehead

I like to get ten pages a day, which amounts to 2,000 words. That’s 180,000 words over a three-month span, a goodish length for…

— Stephen King

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

Books arrive in my head all at once, and then it becomes an 18-month process of getting it all down on paper.

— Douglas Coupland

You don't write a book. You write a sentence and then a paragraph and then a page and then a chapter. Looking at writing…

— Rebecca Serle

Any kind of writing that's meaningful becomes hard work, so there were times when it would really flow, there were times when I'd get…

— Steve Guttenberg

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

“If you're a college student, the equivalent of a weeks reading for classes, can be about the same amount of a book. Can't be…

— Tiffany Acevedo

Whatever a writer gets paid for his book, it's never enough. I think that's true. It's hard work. But in the end, you wrote…

— Jim Gaffigan