Book Quote by Kenneth Koch

One question that often comes up is why, in this age of blogs and tweets and instant digital communication of all kinds, it still…

— Erik Larson

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

— Jerry Spinelli

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

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

— Douglas Adams

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

— Walter Jon Williams

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

— Cynthia Kadohata

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

Books are slow. They require time; they are written slowly, published slowly, and read slowly.

— Lewis Buzbee

It takes me three months of research and nine months of work to produce a book. When I start writing, I do two pages…

— Alan Furst

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

— Ted Bell

One of the saddest things about publishing is how quickly it ages what it touches. The frenzy involved in getting books on shelves, and…

— Walter Kirn

Probably not needing to be published would give me more time to think about a book.

— Kate Atkinson