Any Quote by Paul Johnson

I write four or five a books a year. That means that I usually have one on the go. I am fortunate in being…

— Alexander McCall Smith

You don't write a book. You write a sentence and then a paragraph and then a page and then a chapter. Looking at writing…

— Rebecca Serle

If you imagine writing 1,000 words a day, which most journalists do, that would be a very long book a year. I don't manage…

— A. N. Wilson

I can only write one novel at a time. The author of the Perry Mason novels, Erle Stanley Gardner, often worked on four novels…

— James Thayer

I've written something like 17 novels, which isn't bad, I suppose, but my father wrote 120 books, my mother 40. In comparison, I'm lazy.

— Deborah Moggach

I don't read books regularly, because I'm always writing them. I've written 30 books, thousands of pages.

— Ferran Adria

I have written about 240 books and some short stories, too. It's taken me many years.

— Eve Bunting

There are 20,000 million books I could have to read, but I can pick the ones and know that I'm learning something that I…

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

I tend not to write books that are really, really long, and I'm also a pretty fast writer.

— Elizabeth Berg

Purely the idea of writing a lot of books doesn't make you a great writer, but it might be that the process of doing…

— Walter Mosley

I get over a hundred letters a day from all over the world, from children and parents, and it's a wonder I ever have…

— Enid Blyton

I've always written a little bit. I mean, I've written screenplays, and I've doctored my dialogue for years, and I've written speeches - I…

— Rob Lowe