Books Quote by Paul Auster

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

— Svetlana Alexievich

I've written books that have taken me fifteen years, from first sentence to last, and some that only take three or four months.

— Paul Auster

I wish I could spend six years writing one novel.

— Paullina Simons

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

— Rose Tremain

Novels, in my experience, are slow in coming, and once I've begun them I know I have years rather than months of work ahead…

— Graham Swift

It takes me two to three years to write a novel. A screenplay is 100 pages and takes five years.

— Nick Hornby

I can write a book in probably three months.

— Stephen J. Cannell

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

— Cynthia Kadohata

I spent six years after my first novel and five years after my second without getting into a new book.

— Karl Ove Knausgard

It took me seven years of writing before I published my first story. And then, the publications trickled in over the next five years.

— Rob Roberge

My first novel took 12 years to complete because life got in my way.

— Donald McKay

I've written only two novels, but they're both long ones, and they each took a decade to write.

— Donna Tartt