Book Quote by Michael Ian Black

People think writing a children's book is something you could do in an afternoon but it's actually really hard.

— David Walliams

It takes me a long time writing books. It takes me about five years to write a book, and when I'm done, the last…

— Naomi Klein

I take a very long time to write my books - from five to ten years.

— Svetlana Alexievich

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

Originally I had planned to write just a couple of children's books and then, return the focus on adult literature. A funny thing happened…

— Nikki Grimes

I taught elementary school and painted apartments for ten years. Now I write full-time and never have to change a thing I write. Every…

— Jon Scieszka

With writing, I need a lot of time to sit around and do nothing. But now that I have kids, I just don't have…

— Sofia Coppola

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

— Jerry Spinelli

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

— Doris Lessing

At first, I spend about four hours a day writing. Toward the end of a book, I spend up to 16 hours a day…

— Tracy Kidder

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

I never thought that it would take me so long to do something. I thought everything was temporary and sometimes the best thing you…

— Steve Toltz