Agent Quote by Jasper Fforde

I've been doing short-form writing for a decade, and six years ago I signed with an agent, and we've been working on figuring out…

— Lindy West

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

— Cynthia Kadohata

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

— Svetlana Alexievich

Over a four-month period, I sat down and wrote every day. And then there was a novel, and all of a sudden, there were…

— Melissa Marr

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

It took me 40 years to write my first book.

— Paulo Coelho

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

— Jerry Spinelli

A year after I'd graduated college, I went to a weeklong conference intensive in Boston, and that's when things kicked into high gear. My…

— Brian Hodge

It usually takes me a year to do a book. A year or eighteen months.

— Doris Lessing

It takes me two to three years to write a novel. A screenplay is 100 pages and takes five years.

— Nick Hornby

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

— Ted Bell

I knew what book we had to write, it was clear in my head; it was journals and poetry. So I passed on their…

— Kenny Loggins