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I gauge success in years, not weeks. The weekend box-office approach to book launches is short sighted and encourages crappy books.

— Anonymous

Chapter books are often written in series and kids have come to expect that they'll come out once a year, so publishers want to…

— Carson Ellis

It usually takes about a year to write each book. I don't plan it that way. I don't set deadlines. If a book wants…

— Elizabeth Berg

Most books germinate within you for a long time before they are ready to come out. I wrote several drafts of the novel over…

— Pankaj Mishra

I don't know exactly how long the book as we know it will exist, but I fully expect to make it to my death…

— Rick Moody

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

— Agatha Christie

I have let half-decades elapse between books because books have to be writte and writing is awful, but if you are the type of…

— David Rakoff

I'm sure you're aware, with the time it takes to put these books together, everything can suddenly start coming out at once even though…

— Garth Ennis

I believe one can gauge a book's impact only after about 10 years.

— Mohsin Hamid

I have an idea of how the book will finish up, but it very rarely finishes up the way that I think it's going…

— Stephen King

Ten years from now, no one is going to care how quickly the books came out. The only thing that will matter, the only…

— Anonymous

I don't want to wait more than a year and a half or two years between books.

— Max Cannon