Baby Quote by Luvvie Ajayi

Most every book I bring into the world is like birthing a baby; it's a lot of effort!

— Barbara Kingsolver

I think what gets you through a small writing project, is just one burst of inspiration. A book, especially a longer book, it's a…

— Alan Lightman

Writing books takes a long time, and one thing a writer must do is learn to live with his or her project.

— Charles Bock

Making books is hard work. Some books are, of course, more demanding than others.

— David Macaulay

I cannot think of any work that could be more agreeable and fun than making books for children.

— Arnold Lobel

Most of my books are a two-year project. I tend to follow my heart and my mind and research materials where they take me.

— Nikki Giovanni

I will say I highly recommend, if you want to write a book also, have a child in the midst of that process because…

— Dave Itzkoff

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

— Agatha Christie

I can write a book in probably three months.

— Stephen J. Cannell

You can't write a children's book that takes more than five or six minutes to read, because it will drive the parents batty. It…

— Michael Ian Black

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

— Doris Lessing

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