Book Quote by Karl Ove Knausgard

My first novel took 12 years to complete because life got in my way.

— Donald McKay

Every time I write a book, I've probably taken five years off my life.

— Rachel Cusk

I spend about a year between novels

— Anne Tyler

I haven't done a book for about 3 or 4 years now.

— Gerald Scarfe

I love to read. I remember hearing that the average author takes two years to write a book. So when I read a book,…

— Mark Batterson

I completed my first novel when I was 19 years old.

— Danielle Steel

It took me 40 years to write my first book.

— Paulo Coelho

I thought that I would have a huge literary novel coming out when I was, like, 29. I quit my banking job, and I…

— Philipp Meyer

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

I thought when I started writing that I'd have a book out in four or five years, and as it became apparent that that…

— Ben Fountain

After you've been working fairly intensively on a novel for six months you never want to see the damn thing again.

— Terry Pratchett

For a very long time, I wrote a book a year, and was eager and willing to do it, to put bread on the…

— Jan Karon