Book Quote by Paulo Coelho

The Department of Defense took 40 years to get where it got.

— Michael Chertoff

It took me 40 years to write my first book. When I was a child, I was encouraged to go to school. I was…

— Paulo Coelho

You're always told by your publisher that you must only write one book a year and some years you should perhaps write none at…

— Alexander McCall Smith

I am 55 years old now. It takes three years to write one book. I don't know how many books I will be able…

— Haruki Murakami

Writing takes a lot of patience. It usually takes me a year to write a book. One time, it took me 14 years to…

— Avi

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

— David Baldacci

“It takes a week to write a book, but it takes years to write a good one.”

— M.F. Moonzajer

I notice that I only publish once every four years. It takes a couple of years to write a book and then, for me,…

— Carolyn See

I love to read. I remember hearing that the average author takes two years to write a book. So when I read a book,…

— Mark Batterson

It took me sixteen years to write.

— Junot Diaz

I learned that you can't write a book in the margins of your life. I'd forgotten how much uninterrupted time it takes to write…

— Melissa Harris-Perry

I wanted to write a book about two women falling in love that wasn't hinged on tragedy or that involved some horrible identity-based misfortune.…

— Camille Perri