Book Quote by Rachel Cusk

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

— Svetlana Alexievich

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

— Karl Ove Knausgard

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

For a very long time, I wrote a book a year, and was eager and willing to do it, to put bread on the…

— Jan Karon

I thought when I started writing that I'd have a book out in four or five years, and as it became apparent that that…

— Ben Fountain

And then I wrote my first autobiography when I - well, it was 23 years ago. And since then I've written about one book…

— Joan Collins

I never wanted to write a book, and people have asked me for years to do it.

— Billy Bob Thornton

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

— Eve Bunting

I wish I could spend six years writing one novel.

— Paullina Simons

I still have a full-time day job, which is why it took me five years to write An Ear to the Ground, and why…

— Ken Thompson

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

— Ted Bell

I don't write a novel every two years.

— Jayne Anne Phillips