Books Quote by Nick Hornby

A novel usually takes me two years. A year to research and plan and dream. Then a year to write.

— Rose Tremain

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

— Jerry Spinelli

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

— Ted Bell

It's hard for me to think of writing a novel, because it takes so long.

— Jonathan Ames

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

— Walter Jon Williams

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

— Svetlana Alexievich

Some people take 10 years to write a book and some can do one in under a year.

— David Baldacci

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

There's a lot of ignorance about how long it takes to write a novel. There's a lot of ignorance about how long a novel…

— John Irving

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

— Cynthia Kadohata

How long does it take to write a good book? All of the years that you've lived.

— Edward Abbey