Book Quote by Eve Bunting

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've written books that have taken me fifteen years, from first sentence to last, and some that only take three or four months.

— Paul Auster

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

— Svetlana Alexievich

I've written only two novels, but they're both long ones, and they each took a decade to write.

— Donna Tartt

I write as a matter of need - seven books and God knows how many short stories before anyone published me.

— Jonathan Evison

I've been writing fiction since I was a kid. From the age of 15 to 25, I probably wrote more than 50 short stories,…

— Amor Towles

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

It took me seven years of writing before I published my first story. And then, the publications trickled in over the next five years.

— Rob Roberge

I tend not to write books that are really, really long, and I'm also a pretty fast writer.

— Elizabeth Berg

It takes me three or four years to research and write each book and the individual stories stay with you for a long time…

— Antony Beevor

How long does it take to write a good book? All of the years that you've lived.

— Edward Abbey

I've written a lot of books now; I've been published for over 30 years. I hope with every book I learn something new, and…

— Charlaine Harris