Asks Quote by Jonathan Lethem

When I'm working on a novel, I work 70-hour weeks.

— Dean Koontz

I tend to be pretty efficient with my time. I work on a novel for four to five hours a day, and then the…

— Nicholas Sparks

When I'm really involved or getting towards the end of a novel, I can write for up to ten hours a day. At those…

— Joyce Carol Oates

At first, I spend about four hours a day writing. Toward the end of a book, I spend up to 16 hours a day…

— Tracy Kidder

I don't have many hours in a day, as I'm essentially a single parent. But fortunately, I'm a really fast writer. My goal is…

— Michelle Gagnon

I write about six to seven hours a day, five days a week, unless I'm traveling.

— Jason Reynolds

I write about five thousand words a day, when working on a book, about three thousand a day if I'm writing a short story.…

— Eric Brown

I can do a book in three months if I spend all day, seven days a week at it and, in fact, I work…

— Barbara Mertz

Depending on where I am in the process, sometimes I have a page count and sometimes I don't. Sometimes I have an hour count;…

— Alice Sebold

With novels, you're sitting at a desk, alone, going slightly crazy, for anywhere from six months to a year with zero feedback.

— Duane Swierczynski

People always ask, 'How do you write so many books?' And I say, I work a lot. I work six or seven days a…

— R. L. Stine

I only work on my books at nights and at weekends. It is really just like a hobby.

— Jeff Kinney