Data Quote by F. Scott Fitzgerald

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

I needed to find my way to write. I need about six hours of uninterrupted time in order to produce about two hours of…

— Robert B. Parker

Usually it takes me about nine to 12 months to write a book.

— Jerry Spinelli

I made a startling discovery. Time spent writing = output of work. Amazing.

— Ann Patchett

I have to be by myself when I write, and I never know how long it will take. It is like making butter. Sometimes…

— Annie Fellows Johnston

A novel usually takes me two years. A year to research and plan and dream. Then a year to write.

— Rose Tremain

“If this book looks like it took me 15 minutes to put together, that’s because it did! 30 seconds to write it, and 14.5…

— Jarod Kintz

As much as I've produced it looks to people like I must have written quickly, but it isn't that - because I put in…

— Dean Koontz

As soon as I began, it seemed impossible to write fast enough – I wrote faster than I would write a letter – two…

— Anonymous

It took seven years from the day I decided I wanted to write fiction to actually getting a book published.

— Cynthia Kadohata

The most interesting thing about writing is the way that it obliterates time. Three hours seem like three minutes.

— Gore Vidal

How long it takes to write a book depends on its length.

— Walter Jon Williams