About Quote by John Irving

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

— Nick Hornby

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

— Rose Tremain

No one knows how to write a novel until it's been written

— Alice Hoffman

It's hard for me to think of writing a novel, because it takes so long.

— Jonathan Ames

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

— Walter Jon Williams

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

— Jerry Spinelli

People generally don't recognize how long it takes to conceive, publish, and write a book.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

Usually, I would mistrust a book if it took that long to write. Usually, if it isn't done in two years, I suspect there's…

— John Burnside

It takes an awful lot of time to not write a book.

— Douglas Adams

It takes a long time to publish a book.

— Kenneth Koch

Writing takes a lot of patience. It usually takes me a year to write a book. One time, it took me 14 years to…

— Avi

It can be dismaying, all the same, for a novelist to compare the slowness of the writing with the speed of the reading. Novels…

— Graham Swift