Preparation Quote by LeVar Burton

I think reading an audiobook is a real skill - for one thing, you have to be able to do impressions and voices, which…

— Tara Westover

The audiobooks I buy are never first-time reads - only rereadings of books I know well that I find intoxicating.

— Mary Karr

Three months seems to me quite a reasonable time to complete a book, if one can get right down to it.

— Agatha Christie

I've never listened to an audiobook before, and I have to say it's a totally different experience. When you read a book, the story…

— Robin Sloan

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

— Doris Lessing

I have to learn sometimes 25 pages at a time. The takes can last 20 minutes - we do big, long takes. You always…

— Adrian Dunbar

I am personally not a lover of audiobooks in general, and I am indeed one of those people who don't count listening to a…

— Emilie Autumn

“Furthermore, if you watch a few of the free YouTube videos and decide you would want to hear more, you can buy the speaker’s…

— Caroline Porter Thomas

It takes me about a week and a half to read the typical book. I don't know how many ten-day spans I have left.…

— Ken Kalfus

The reader's ear must adjust down from loud life to the subtle, imaginary sounds of the written word. An ordinary reader picking up a…

— Annie Dillard

Each book takes anywhere from two to three years to complete, from concept to outline to final edits. I work on as many as…

— Danielle Steel

Research is a lifelong occupation so it's hard to factor it in, but I reckon most books take 5 months from start to finish.

— Bernard Cornwell