Advance Quote by Heather Brooke

I say that I've never been late with a manuscript, but I don't mean to be arrogant; it's that I simply want to get…

— Akira Toriyama

My publisher is generous with deadlines, which are never set in stone. Some writers need that pressure, but I am more productive when there's…

— Julia Glass

Publishers give you deadlines for those last phases of production that are perfectly comfortable for them. So, to whatever extent I can, I like…

— Charles Frazier

I think I've learned over the years, because you'd have to be stupid not to, that when a book publisher gives you a deadline…

— Dave Barry

I've never signed a contract, so never have a deadline. A deadline's an unnerving thing. I just finish a book, and if the publisher…

— Marchette Chute

You won't find a publisher until you have written the book and you won't find the time till you sit down, stay down, and…

— Carol Drinkwater

It usually takes about a year to write each book. I don't plan it that way. I don't set deadlines. If a book wants…

— Elizabeth Berg

I write a book over a period of months or years, and when I'm done with it, usually another year goes by before I…

— Margaret Haddix

For an author just starting out, you've got to deliver the goods every year or sooner or people will forget you or you will…

— Jasper Fforde

Each of my books has taken me a different length of time to write - eight months for 'Seesaw Girl,' eight months for 'Shard,'…

— Linda Sue Park

You do it a day at a time. You write as well as you can, you put it in the mail, you leave it…

— James Lee Burke

It takes a long time to publish a book.

— Kenneth Koch